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Food World Order

from yahoo.net: In April 2012, 7-year-old Emily “Emma” Whitehead was in
the fight of her life following her second relapse of acute
lymphoblastic—or lymphocytic—leukemia (ALL). The then 6-year-old’s
parents and doctors turned to an unlikely source to save the young
girl's life—the HIV virus.
...

from naturalnews.com: Colorado and Washington pot smokers are lighting
up in celebration after having achieved a stunning decriminalization
victory at the ballot box. Inhale while you can, my brothers and
sisters, because Obama is already plotting how to re-criminalize your
swag and nullify st ...

from foodsafetynews.com: Celebrity chef Martha Stewart came down with a
Salmonella infection in late November, reported the New York Post this
week.
Stewart was forced to cancel a number of post-Thanksgiving engagements
due to her illness.
“It really hit me hard and I was in bed for days ...

from
therealfoodchannel.com: Antibiotics are routinely given to factory
farmed chickens, even healthy birds, to increase their growth rate. New
research show a direct link between a superbug, resulting from eating
chicken raised on antibiotics, and bladder infections. Eight million
women suffer ...

CrusadeWatch

source:
Huffington Post, 8/24/2011
Michael Mungai
Co-founder, Dagoretti 4 Kids
I grew up in the hovels of Dagoretti, an impoverished suburb in the
outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya. Raised by an unemployed single mother, my
two siblings and I would take turns missing school to babysit our ...

source:
Daijiworld, Aug 29, 2011
Puttur, Aug 29: Four persons, reportedly belonging to a Christian sect,
were handed over to the police by the residents of Boodujal of Nedle
village near Uppinangady on Sunday August 28. The locals, including some
dalits, accused K J Kunhimonu (30) from Mun ...

source:
Deccan chronicle, July 13, 2011
Its a well-documented fact that people adopt aspects of other cultures
around them. The churches in Andhra Pradesh are following this custom
and Indianising some of practices. At St Andrews Orthodox Church, West
Marredpally, a Dwaja Stambam has been ...

source: Bangalore Mirror, June 17, 2011
In her police complaint, Priyalatha has charged
Shantaraju, pastor of Bethel Church and Bethel Student Centre, with
having sex with young girls and getting them to abort
S Shyam Prasad

Whole Truth Coalition

COTO
Report and Megan ‘Verb’ Kargher are proud to present Vox Populi,
Methods of Manipulation. It has become increasingly evident that large
portions of the planet are descending with alarming speed into Orwellian
police states. What is the New World Order and what are their plans fo
...

“Wirral Council is taking Roger Hayes to Birkenhead county court for non-payment of council tax.
Mr Hayes, chairman of The British Constitution Group, claims the council tax is illegal and imposed without his consent.
His stand has won support from all over the country, and demonstrators t ...

COTO
Report and Megan Kargher are pleased to bring you a special two day
interview with Freeman of freemantv, the freeman perspective and the
free zone
http://www.youtube.com/user/Freemantv…
http://thefreemanperspective.blogspot…
http://freemantv.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O ...

The Economic Collapse

Historically,
small businesses have been the primary engine of new job creation in
the United States. If the economy was getting healthy, we would expect
to see the number of jobs at new businesses rise. Instead, we are
witnessing just the opposite. We are told that the economy is supposed
to ...

Why
in the world would anyone want to live in the state of California at
this point? The entire state is rapidly becoming a bright, shining
example of everything that is wrong with America. It is so sad to watch
our most populated state implode right in front of our eyes. Like
millions of Ame ...

Did
you see the huge crowds of protesters that flooded the Michigan Capitol
on Tuesday? They were there to protest two bills there were being
considered by the state legislature that would limit the power of unions
in the state. Michigan lawmakers approved the bills and this
absolutely infuria ...

How
can the mainstream media claim that the U.S. economy is "improving"
when it is painfully obvious to anyone with a brain that the middle
class is being absolutely eviscerated? According to numbers that were
just released, the number of Americans on food stamps rose by more than
600,000 in a ...

The
mainstream media is heralding the decline of the official unemployment
rate to 7.7 percent as evidence that the U.S. economy is improving. But
it is a giant lie. The truth is that unemployment in America is not
actually going down. The percentage of working age Americans with a job
actual ...

The Talking Clock

Just
remember that death is not the end...
So, whilst The Talking Clock is - for now at least - mothballed, the
many friends and regular readers who are "awake" might want to join me
in my little sidestep venture:
http://conspiracywatch.blogspot.co.uk/
Blogrolls need to be added and the ...

On
the day that the BEST blogger in the blogosphere - Captain Ranty - has
posted to announce 'end of transmission' (though not for the first
time)...
...having mulled over what Captain Ranty has to say, rather than
replying to the above linked blogpost in comments or via 140 characters
on Twi ...

Here
are the highlights of the European Union (Approval of Treaty Amendment
Decision) Bill, Second Reading debate which took place in the House of
Commons yesterday.
Bill Cash MP
Plainly, the implosion in Europe does affect us, and this failed attempt
to put a sticking plaster on an increasi ...

Archbishop
Desmond Tutu is all over the world's media for boldly coming out in
public with a call for George W. Bush and Tony Blair to stand trial at
the International Criminal Court in The Hague for war crimes over the
invasion of Iraq and overthrow of Saddam Hussein.
Part of Tutu's thinking ...

As
is now a yearly thing for this blog, a few images of the tributes left
at Kensington Palace for the fifteenth anniversary of Diana's death.
Those of our readers who come here as fellow Diana admirers are more
than welcome to save the images - links back greatly appreciated. Click
on the th ...

Facing South

The
fire that killed 112 workers last month in a Bangladesh garment factory
has sparked protests and brought scrutiny to retailers including
Arkansas-based Walmart, which is embroiled in labor unrest back home.
read more

A
professor involved in a scientific conflict of interest scandal at the
University of Texas has moved to a Louisiana coastal research nonprofit
-- where he continues to be less than upfront about his oil and gas
industry connections.
read more

In
addition to hearing challenges to laws banning same-sex marriage, the
Supreme Court will consider the constitutionality of a key part of the
Voting Rights Act of 1965, landmark civil rights legislation that's been
increasingly under attack.
read more

A
proponent of abolishing the minimum wage and corporate income taxes,
Dan Forest is quite likely the most conservative statewide elected
official in North Carolina. But his work with a nonprofit that
criticizes retailer Sears for promoting pornography by showing photos of
women in lingerie cros ...

CenterLine

Karen
Greenberg, executive director of NYU Law’s Center on Law and Security
(CLS), announced she is leaving to pursue other career opportunities.
Greenberg’s tenure as executive director began with the founding of the
Center in 2003. Under her stewardship, CLS … Continue reading →

Today’s
Terrorism News post will be the last one for the summer. Along with the
staff here at the Center on Law and Security, and with particular
thanks to The Soufan Group for its generous support and to Carolyn
O’Hara … Continue reading →

In
Association with The Soufan Group At Radicalization Hearing, Rep. King
Says al Shabab Poses Threat Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) held a third
congressional hearing on Islamic radicalization in the United States
Wednesday, this one focused on the threat of … Continue reading →

In
Association with The Soufan Group Four Indicted for Drug Trafficking to
Benefit Terrorism Federal prosecutors in New York unsealed indictments
Tuesday against four men they say conspired to sell drugs and buy
weapons for Hezbollah and the Taliban in … Continue reading →

In
Association with The Soufan Group In Arkansas, Man Accused of Killing
Soldier Strikes Plea Deal A man on trial for shooting two U.S. soldiers,
one of whom was killed, outside of a military recruiting station in
2009 reached a … Continue reading →

Tech Drive In

Ever wondered what happened to all those mind numbing animations and
effects in older Ubuntu releases running GNOME 2.x? We used to conduct
Linux installation fests during our college days and showing off Compiz
Fusion's capabilities was a major highlight during every such event. But
with the ...

Reditr is a multi-column Reddit client for desktops. It currently
supports Ubuntu, Mac, Windows and Google Chrome platforms. When it was
first announced few months back, it created a lot of excitement,
especially among Linux folks. But the initial Reditr Alpha release
disappointed quite a few. ...

The wait is finally over. Official Gmail for Android app now supports
pinch-to-zoom action. This was perhaps one of the most requested feature
by users of Gmail app. Apart from that, the new app also brings in
features such as swipe to delete/archive action, attaching of photos and
videos from ...

More Android growth stories. Google Play Store is growing in numbers.
Nearly 900,000 apps and games are already in there and have been
downloaded more than 25 billion times. But what about the revenues? App
Annie has some interesting statistics.
Google Play Store Reven ...

Android is surging, their remains no questions about it. Android is a
proven platform now and that is particularly showing in the burgeoning
apps market. Google Play Store is now home to nearly 900,000
applications and games. More than 25 billion apps and games have already
been downloaded fro ...

Case About Bird Flu

Sipping
some wine to mourn – or perhaps to celebrate? – my leaving Austria, one
of my elderly neighbours mentioned the resignation speech of Austrian
Chancellor Kurt Schusschnig in 1938, which ended with the words “May God
protect Austria.” Every Austrian knows what happened after the
Annexatio ...

Sipping
some wine to mourn – or perhaps to celebrate? – my leaving Austria, one
of my elderly neighbours mentioned the resignation speech of Austrian
Chancellor Kurt Schusschnig in 1938, which ended with the words “May God
protect Austria.” Every Austrian knows what happened after the
Annexatio ...

You
read about it on this blog first: Globalist and Magna chief Frank
Stronach has been trying to recruit people for a new „false flag“
opposition party as the euro crisis escalates. Stronach even rang the
solictor handling the sale of my flat in Vienna and offered him a job as
Justice Minister. ...

You
read about it on this blog first: Globalist and Magna chief Frank
Stronach has been trying to recruit people for a new „false flag“
opposition party as the euro crisis escalates. Stronach even rang the
solictor handling the sale of my flat in Vienna and offered him a job as
Justice Minister. ...

At
a time of crisis, terror and tyranny, Claus von Stauffenberg seized
the initiative and tried to assassinate Adolf Hitler and overthrow the
Nazi regime in a coup in July, 1944. As such, he is an example to us all
today. The mass impoverishment of people by the fractional reserve
banking scam ...

Invisible Opportunity

By
Michael Eisen | April 22, 2011 A few weeks ago a postdoc in my lab
logged on to Amazon to buy the lab an extra copy of Peter Lawrence’s The
Making of a Fly – a classic work in developmental biology that we – and
most other Drosophila developmental biologists – consult regularly. The
[...]

Ben
Weitzenkorn, TechNewsDaily Staff Writer Members of the
Anonymous-affiliated Team GhostShell hacking collective have published
what they claim is stolen information for 1.6 million accounts linked to
government agencies, including the Pentagon, NASA and the Federal
Reserve. The hackers appear ...

By
Jonathan Lis | Jul.11, 2011 | 11:05 PM The Knesset passed Monday a law
penalizing persons or organizations that boycott Israel or the
settlements, by a vote of 47 to 38. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
was not present during the vote. MK Zeev Elkin (Likud), who proposed the
law, s ...

The
U.N. General Assembly overwhelmingly approved a resolution Monday
calling on Israel to quickly open its nuclear program for inspection and
backing a high-level conference to ban nuclear weapons from the Middle
East which was just canceled. All the Arab nations and Iran had planned
to attend ...

By
Visible There are hacks and there are bought and sold whores of the
trade and then there is Michael Isikoff, doing what he does for all
things bright and beautiful. It’s a wonderful thing. Never let it be
said that those who should have gone to the gallows, like Pollard and
sundry, shou ...

In
early 2010, we launched the VA Innovation Initiative (VAi2) to bring
fresh thinking to Departmental challenges. Since then, we have received
over 18,000 ideas from our employees and nearly 800 submissions from the
private sector and academia--all focused on improving the way in which
we deliv ...

electric politics

Amen,
Brother Rick. Thinking about it, we can deduce a few things about
successful mass actions. First, they require a high level of
consciousness regarding the problems to be solved. Ignorance ain't in
the recipe for success. Second, they take a lot of work. If it were
easy, logically we'd be s ...

Former
New York Times Washington Bureau Chief, two time Pulitzer and Emmy
winning reporter Hedrick Smith has written a wonderful book, Who Stole
the American Dream? (Random House, 2012). I must say, if a seventy nine
year old pillar of the journalistic establishment can find his way to a
nearly ...

If
you want proof of the fundamentally unserious nature of American
politics look no further than our conduct of national elections. The
modern twist, paperless electronic voting machines, makes it possible —
even before taking account of Byzantine rules for the Electoral College —
n ...

Quite
apart from the banality of our two political parties it would be so
much less stressful if America could hold reasonably accurate, fair and
open elections. Why don't we? Tova Wang tackles part of this problem in
The Politics of Voter Suppression: Defending and Expanding Americans'
Right To ...

In
our day and age great wealth ruins most of what it touches. Culture —
even highbrow culture — being no exception. Why, I specifically want to
know, do performances of classical music no longer move me the way they
used to do? Hoping for some answers I turned to Blair Tindall, auth ...

Alberta Wilderness Association
For four years, we've been keeping you up-to-date on Suffield National
Wildlife Area and this very question: What will it be, wild prairie
grasslands or 1,275 new Cenovus gas wells and 220 kilometres of ...

Stop NATO

U.S.
Department of Defense December 14, 2012 Panetta Signs Order to Deploy
400 U.S. Personnel to Turkey By Cheryl Pellerin INCIRLIK AIR BASE,
Turkey: Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta has signed an order that will
deploy 400 U.S. personnel to Turkey to support the deployment that NATO
agreed to ...

U.S.
Department of Defense American Forces Press Service December 13, 2012
Training, Resource Sharing Boost NATO Transformation Initiatives By
Amaani Lyle ==== “From a strategic, operational, tactical level we do
training. From an individual to collective level, we do training. Cradle
to grave & ...

Voice
of Russia December 14, 2012 “Patriot” missiles to be operational on
Turkey’s border with Syria January 2013 NATO photograph “Patriot”
anti-aircraft missiles, deployed by NATO on the Turkish border with
Syria, are to become operational late January 2013. This was announced
in Brussels by Pr ...

The
News International December 13, 2012 Holy Triumvirate William Blum EU,
NATO, US: 21st Century Alliance For Global Domination U.S. Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton, “President” Atifete Jahjaga and European Union
High Representative for Foreign Policy Catherine Ashton in Pristina ...

theintelhub.com
| A report revealed that Miami International Airport had fired more TSA
agents for theft than any other airport in the country and, after some
investigation, revealed the startling fact that once again a head
supervisor in the TSA is a sexual deviant.

JG
Vibes & Bob Tuskin | Todays grope report on the Bob Tuskin Show
featured some of the weeks most interesting TSA related stories,
including the anti-gun legislator in Chicago who was caught bringing a
gun into an airport.

FRS

Genocidal
Israelis now quite willing to see Palestinians put out of the way, says
US historian Wherever the Israelis and their Zionist cohorts are
leading us, it is not into the light, it is to someplace very, very
dark. December 3, 2012 by Lawrence Davidson “The Israelis have taught
their child ...

Genocidal
Israelis now quite willing to see Palestinians put out of the way, says
US historian Wherever the Israelis and their Zionist cohorts are
leading us, it is not into the light, it is to someplace very, very
dark. December 3, 2012 by Lawrence Davidson “The Israelis have taught
their child ...

Chris
Hedges, Truthdig Op-Ed, Tuesday 11 December 2012 Abu-Jamal, who was a
young activist in the Black Panthers and later one of the most important
radical journalists in Philadelphia, a city that a few decades earlier
produced I.F. Stone, has long been the bête noire of the state. I am
sitting ...

Today
was the final hearing for the case against the Trade Not Aid hijackers
Cate (Catherine) Myles (aka Soraya Fitzgerald) and Sammi Coulthard (aka
Saja Rana & Maitreyi Atmaja). It cost over £600 in court fees,
money that should have gone directly into the cause. It took countless
hours o ...

Catherine
Myles, I have found the funds for you to come to Gaza. We will pay for
you to go to Gaza. I will pay for your tickets from the UK to Cairo and
then your taxi fare to Gaza and your accommodation in Gaza and your
return taxi fare back Cairo, back to the UK. You have a paid, PAID trip
to ...

I
think this is going to be one of people's favorite videos as it is
genuinely funny and yet very serious. Max Igan and myself get into this
one by showing a sycophantic Patrick Clawson of the Washington Institute
for Near East spouting some truly incredible historical narrative. This
useful idi ...

StillSmallVoice

And
here is proof: The Courant's parent company, Tribune, is backing away
from maintaining this particular blog format -- Movable Type -- in favor
of another blog platform, one that is unworkable here.
Namely, the new format allows blog comments to go online unapproved, and
-- I say th ...

"Peer
benchmarking" helps move compensation for CEOs ever higher.
Perhaps one of the high-dollar bosses should take a page from Warren
Buffett, who in August suggested in a New York Times essay that the rich
don't carry their weight in taxes. Meanwhile, Buffett, himself, has
refined his earlier ...

Associated Content

People
like myself are getting tired of hearing about this fiscal cliff deal
being held up just because the GOP refuses to accept the Nov. 6 election
results. Taxing the rich more isn't being done for fun, it's
necessary.Contributor: Roy A. Barnes
Published: Dec 06, 2012

In
a pre-weekend address, general counsel to the Pentagon, Jeh Johnson,
for the first time, uttered the sentiment that the “War on Terror,”
which began on September 11, 2001, would, finally, be facing its
long-awaited sunset.Contributor: D. Benjamin Satkowiak
Published: Dec 03, 2012

The
New York Times reports that the United Nations has voted to elevate the
Palestinian Authority on the West Bank to the status of non member
observing state. Hot Air suggests that this is to the detriment of peace
in the Middle East.Contributor: Mark Whittington
Published: Nov 30, 2012

Popsci - Science

NASA
is deliberately crashing the probes into a small mountain-like feature
on the moon's north pole. Farewell, GRAIL! Just shy of a full year
encircling the moon, NASA’s twin lunar probes are bidding farewell on
Monday, crashing in a controlled fashion into a small mountain-like
formation at t ...

Researchers
discover an adorable (yet scary!) species of slow loris. In the
jungles of Borneo, an international team of researchers have discovered a
new species of slow loris, and classified two previously known
subspecies as distinct species in their own rights. That up there is the
Kayan lor ...

The
deepest images taken to date show the universe when it was only 3
percent of the age it is now. Ever since the Hubble Space Telescope’s
final upgrade, astronomers have been able to push it farther and farther
in look-back time--that’s a technical term--to the infancy of the
universe. Now th ...

Now
that the most adorable animals are under threat, surely we'll turn the
tide on the warming planet. Many species of mammals are at a greater
risk of extinction due to the predicted rise in extreme weather events
(see: climate change), a new study by the Zoological Society of London
concludes ...

NASA
scientists are comparing Titan's river to a Nile full of flowing liquid
hydrocarbons. Stretching more than 200 miles from its headwaters
toward a large and mysterious sea, this river probably looks very
familiar. But it is not the Nile. It is an as-yet-unnamed river on
Titan, Saturn’s larg ...

In
early 2010, we launched the VA Innovation Initiative (VAi2) to bring
fresh thinking to Departmental challenges. Since then, we have received
over 18,000 ideas from our employees and nearly 800 submissions from the
private sector and academia--all focused on improving the way in which
we deliv ...

Hudson's Weather & Climate

The
cold easterly which a large majority of computer models were predicting
to develop this week has failed to materialise, with a much more
unsettled weather pattern expected to return from the Atlantic during
tomorrow.
Last week, 80% of the ECMWF model solutions wanted an easterly
'blocking' ...

There
is now growing consensus between most weather computer models that cold
air from the east is likely to spread across Britain next week.
If so, it will be the first time since March that high pressure has
properly dominated our weather, and will end a long sequence of at times
record brea ...

Only
two thirds of average rainfall needs to fall across the UK in December
for 2012 to end up in the top ten wettest years on record, according to
Met Office data which was first collated over a hundred years ago in
1910.
Should this be the case, it would also mean that nearly half of the yea
...

A
welcome change to drier but colder weather is likely as we head through
this week following heavy rainfall since Saturday night which is once
again testing flood defences across the county.
November is continuing a remarkable run of wet weather, becoming the 8th
successive month where rainfa ...

Those
of us with a keen interest in the weather can't fail to have noticed
yet another headline in the Express this weekend, claiming this winter
would be the coldest in 100 years, which you can see here.
Wherever I went this weekend, I've been stopped in the street by people
asking me when the ...

Internat'l Political Economy

Cesar
Purisima of the Philippines for 2012 according to Euromoney. It just
goes to show you how far the United States has fallen in the opinion of
those in the know that an American has not won this award since Bob
Rubin back in 1996 (before being tarnished by all that Citi stuff during
the glob ...

Skip
the maths, will ya?I have in the past tied Michael Pettis to the
whipping post for uncritically accepting Bernanke's self-serving notion
of a "global savings glut" amidst falling levels of savings worldwide
and a fantasyland assertion that the US household savings rate would hit
double digi ...

As
Egypt falls into a Morsi-made crisis by him trying to ramrod an
Islamist-designed, next-to-no other public consultation constitution via
a hastily called referendum this Saturday, its financial rescue
prospects get even cloudier. Public order has gotten even worse than in
recent months--which ...

Though
not always, expatriates often develop piercing insights into the often
strange political economy of Asian nations as outsiders looking in. Lord
Christopher Patten of Barnes should be familiar to all scholars of Asia
as the last British governor of Hong Kong. He remains controversial to
th ...

While
I am certainly no fan of Hugo Chavez, I do not wish terminal illness on
anyone as a God-fearing Christian. That said, financial markets make it
their business to peer into the crystal ball to foresee the future.
Will Venezuela open itself up again to foreign investment in the energy
sector ...

Economic Collapse Blog

Historically,
small businesses have been the primary engine of new job creation in
the United States. If the economy was getting healthy, we would expect
to see the number of jobs at new businesses rise. Instead, we are
witnessing just the opposite. We are told that the economy is supposed
to ...

Why
in the world would anyone want to live in the state of California at
this point? The entire state is rapidly becoming a bright, shining
example of everything that is wrong with America. It is so sad to watch
our most populated state implode right in front of our eyes. Like
millions of Ame ...

Did
you see the huge crowds of protesters that flooded the Michigan Capitol
on Tuesday? They were there to protest two bills there were being
considered by the state legislature that would limit the power of unions
in the state. Michigan lawmakers approved the bills and this
absolutely infuria ...

How
can the mainstream media claim that the U.S. economy is "improving"
when it is painfully obvious to anyone with a brain that the middle
class is being absolutely eviscerated? According to numbers that were
just released, the number of Americans on food stamps rose by more than
600,000 in a ...

The
mainstream media is heralding the decline of the official unemployment
rate to 7.7 percent as evidence that the U.S. economy is improving. But
it is a giant lie. The truth is that unemployment in America is not
actually going down. The percentage of working age Americans with a job
actual ...

E U Times

German
multinational engineering and electronics company, Bosch, has come
under attack by human rights activists for offering surveillance systems
to China to spy on inmates at visiting time. Kai Muller, the manager of
the International Campaign for Tibet, told the German-language
newspaper Sudd ...

A
few hours ago I was cycling through a nearby neighborhood. As I
approached a mother and her two children walking down the sidewalk, the
cutest little four-year-old piped up. “Hi…!” she said. “Hi…!” I replied.
At that point, mom jerked the little girl by the arm, bent down and
whispered somethi ...

A
United Nation conference in Dubai has been disrupted by a suspected
hacking group after the UN agreed to adopt a new Internet standard that
allows governments and corporations to spy on people. The World
Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT) has convened in
Dubai to debate chan ...

Italian
Prime Minister Mario Monti has announced he is going to resign as he
has lost support in the country’s parliament hours after former Premier
Silvio Berlusconi said he would run again for head of government.
Italian President Giorgio Napolitano’s office issued a statement on
Saturday, ann ...

An
interesting report prepared by the Aerospace Defence Forces (VKO)
circulating in the Kremlin today states that the “subcritical” nuclear
test conducted by the United States last Wednesday (5 December) was in
preparation for a much larger atomic explosion being planned by the
Americans whose f ...

Voiceless Victim

The
arrogant, entitled prince of a wealthy, influential monarchical
religious institution which considers itself, and is treated, as above
the laws of the land or The damaged, impoverished, abandoned child
victims of serial rapists, whose suffering has been dismissed and whose
pleas for help hav ...

The
sheer joy of Monday’s announcement of a national Royal Commission into
child sexual abuse in religious and other institutions in Australia was
not the only emotion bringing victims to tears this week. There was
sadness at years of unnecessary suffering by victims who had begged and
beg ...

I
woke up today with no expectation that by late afternoon I would
achieve an almost impossible dream. But finally victims of child sexual
abuse throughout Australia are to be given a voice, to be given a chance
of justice, to be able to use our painful experiences to prevent other
children havi ...

Melbourne
Archbishop Denis Hart just cannot stop insulting victims every time he
opens his mouth. He wrote another letter this week, in conjunction with
his fellow Victorian bishops and leaders of religious orders, which
reached its intended audience, the news media, yesterday. He even
started o ...

WL Central

Julian
Assange has reportedly confirmed his candidacy for the Australian
Senate in the 2013 federal election. The WikiLeaks editor-in-chief has
also announced the imminent formation and registration of a WikiLeaks
political party, which would promote government transparency and oppose
recent ero ...

Ecuador's
President Rafael Correa stated in an interview this month that his
government would consider granting political asylum to Syrian
head-of-state Bashar al Assad. President Assad is reportedly mulling
asylum for himself, his family members, and close associates, in the
event that he is fo ...

Controversy
erupted earlier this week after the journalism department of
Argentina's National University of La Plata awarded Ecuadorean President
Rafael Correa the Rodolfo Walsh Prize for freedom of expression.
Proponents of media freedom have harshly criticized Correa for his
treatment of the E ...

AFP
news agency has reported that Julian Assange will meet this Thursday in
London with French politician Jean-Luc Mélenchon, co-Chairman of
France's Left Party (PG). A press conference will be held at Ecuador's
London embassy after the meeting.
Promoting what he calls a "citizens' revolution," ...

The
United Nations refugee agency and a global non-governmental
organisation are jointly appealing to the United States Government to
take further action to end the hardships facing stateless people in the
North American country.

United
Nations officials today mourned the death of Oscar Niemeyer, a
world-renowned Brazilian architect who was also a key figure in the
design and building of the world body's headquarters in New York.

Expressing
"serious concern" over a constitutional reform measure affecting
Colombia's military justice system, the United Nations human rights
office today called on the country's President and the President of the
Congress to reconsider their support for the bid, which could undermine
efforts ...

Conspiracy Reality TV

The
trailer for Gangster Squad (shown before the movie) shows a theatre
full of people being shot by numerous gunmen. This Batman comic "The
Dark Knight Returns" depicts a Batman inspired shooting at a movie
theatre.

Blood
coltan still exists. I'm holding a mobile phone. And I know that the
microprocessor it contains uses coltan. And if this coltan has been
obtained at the massacre of 10 or 20 villagers through slave labor, the
suffering of children forced to work in the mines by the armed militia.
This is i ...

Some
state governments passed measures to forcibly quarantine residents,
incarcerate those who refuse to be vaccinated, and to forcibly vaccinate
your children. Legislation like this passed during the much hyped H1N1
flu outbreak.

Rewilding Institute

HERE’S
WHY: Wild Utah Project is raising awareness and funds for their ongoing
sage-grouse campaign because sage-grouse numbers have been diminishing
West-wide for years. They have just gone live with their first
video, Dance for Survival: Protecting the Sage-Grouse and a fundraising
chall ...

Posted
by Marcel Evans on October 17, 2012 in Science News In the past week
The Costa Rica Star has published on the shark finning ban that was
signed by Laura Chinchilla in the presence of Sir Richard Branson, near
Manuel Antonio National Park. Sea Shepherd is not buying it. This is
simply smok ...

(September
4, 2012) The DC-based group Progressives for Immigration Reform (PFIR)
recently announced a major new project: an Environmental Impact
Statement (EIS) on U.S. immigration policy. PFIR has also unveiled the
website for the new project, and invites public comments on the proper
scope ...

Published
on Aug 17, 2012 by NewMexicoPBS Why is it important for prairie dogs to
be restored to their native habitat? Biologist Dr. Ana Davidson and
Petunia (Gunnison’s prairie dog) join us to share insights about the
ecology of New Mexico’s grasslands and the importance of reestabl ...

Please
attend these important public meetings about the Village at Wolf Creek
access project - The Wolf Creek and Alberta Park – Rio Grande National
Forest Land Swap DEIS Comment Period ends September 28th and the
Forest Service seems poised to give Leavell-McCombs Joint Venture (LMJV)
204 ...

We Know the Lies

Alexis de Tocqueville is the best commentator of the modern agenda of
alienation, giving aristocratic critics to the American matrix which
starts its nuisances at the beginning of the nineteenth century.
Tocqueville foresees a bleak American future for Europe and the whole
world. ~ Nicolas B ...

U.S.
meat supplies to Russia have been banned. The Russian Federation and
the United States differ in the assessment of the causes of the
situation. Russia claims that the reason for the ban was the presence of
ractopamine drug in US meat. ~ Anastasia Garina
read more

Every
mouthful of McDonalds meal contains a handful of chemicals that
raise ‘bad’ cholesterol levels, increase diabetes risk, lower immunity,
and damage DNA. In fact fast food contains so many harmful ingredients
it shouldn’t even be fed to a pet because that would be cruel.
read more

Tarpley

Webster
G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV December 10, 2012 The most effective way to
finance the reconstruction of stricken areas in New York, New Jersey,
Connecticut, and other states in the wake of the October 28-29
Superstorm Sandy is to mobilize Chairman Ben Bernanke and the Federal
Reserve System ...

Webster
G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV December 4, 2012 In the midst of the current
haggling over the US federal budget, the main fact is being ignored: the
fiscal shortfall of the US government over decades is largely due to
Wall Street’s rigging of the tax code so that the main money center
banks p ...

Modern Survivalism

WND.com
has recently reported that Iran’s death squad is here. 10 terrorist
cells, apparently ‘highly trained’ and ‘sophisticated’, are reportedly
here and ready to attack critical infrastructure in the United States
during 2013… “The source within the o ...

Sounds
simple, right? Living debt free is a simple concept: Spend less than
you earn, and accrue no debts. Pay as you go. Sounds simple, right? So,
why are so many people unable to do it? We’ve heard it before… “live
within our means,” “develop budgets”. But in the end, m ...

Why
is it that when we see, read, or hear a report about someone surviving a
near death experience, or someone who has been diagnosed with a
terrible condition, the person will drastically change their life, their
outlook on life, and the things that they do from then on? From that
point on, tho ...

The
following is a very short true survival story of one example why you
should have extra food in your home. During my previous career, and
regarding one of the VP’s of the company that I worked for at the time
(who was/is a great guy – everybody liked him) came down with the flu.
[...]

Guest
Post: by Tom at CampingSurvival.com Now that we’re getting into
winter, you might not have nice dry wood lying around your campsite or
sitting outside your hunting cabin. Some people will use a bunch of
lighter fluid or – even more unwisely – gasoline (don’t do this!), but
there are ...

Fast Company

Comprised solely of recyclable materials, Studio 1984’s Ecological
Pavilion doesn’t have much in the way of modern conveniences, but it
wouldn’t be a bad spot to spend a cozy afternoon. When asked about
the name of his fledgling architecture collective, Studio 1984, cofou
...

Henry Wilson creates work that straddles homemade and high-end. My
father-in-law makes the best shelves. They’re unfinished plywood,
connected by a few dozen L-brackets. They’re strong, durable, and have a
timeless earnestness that I really dig. But Henry Wilson is a designer w
...

Ad agency Lowe SSP3 tries to lure guerilla fighters out of the jungle
and home to their families with unmissable beacons of light.
Guerrilla fighters situated in Colombia may be tempted to demobilize and
go home to their families this holiday season. At least that’s what one
ad agenc ...

Instead of hands-on training at the job, what if people could learn
how to work from playing online? An estimated 75 million youth
worldwide are unemployed, at rates triple those of older adults. Untold
millions of those probably spend their time on the couch playing Halo 4
or Call of Duty ...

The
New York Times is getting into the e-books business through
partnerships with digital publishers Byliner and Vook. The Times will up
to 12 original e-singles through Byliner on a variety of topics
including culture, sports, business, science, and health. The first
Byliner title, "Snow Fall: ...

Jadaliyya

On
November 22nd, thousands of protesters took to the streets when
President Mohammad Morsi unilaterally granted himself sweeping powers to
govern Egypt. He later rescinded some provisions of his decree but
forced through a draft constitution and set a deadline for a popular
referendum to enshri ...

[This
is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on
Somalia, Djibouti, and Comoros Islands, and reflects a wide variety of
opinions. It does not reflect the views of the On the Margins Editors or
of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in
each month's ...

[This
is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on the
Maghreb and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the
views of the Maghreb Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your
own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to
maghreb@jadaliyya.c ...

mediagazer

Rebecca Theim / Cleveland Scene:
8 Things Cleveland Can Expect from The Plain Dealer's “Press-Ageddon”
— When former journalists and alumni of the New Orleans Times-Picayune
heard the news about the imminent changes at The Plain Dealer, our
hearts broke for Clevela ...

Edmund Lee / Bloomberg:
Buffett Is Latest Billionaire to Struggle With Newspaper Revival —
Warren Buffett, the investor famous for betting on aging industries like
railroads and insurance, is now trying to pull off something other
billionaires have tried and failed to do: save ...

Sam Kennedy / Morning Call:
Warren Buffett eyeing Allentown Morning Call? — Ownership of Lehigh
Valley newspaper in question, and one of the world's richest men has
something to say about it. Tribune Co.'s imminent emergence from an
epic bankruptcy has fueled a flurry of ...

Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
NY Times Describes ‘Torture’ More Under Obama — The New York Times,
which tied itself in linguistic knots during the Bush years to avoid
describing waterboarding as torture, splashed this headline on
Thursday's front page: & ...

Margaret Sullivan / The Public Editor's Journal:
DealBook Conference Was Impressive, Lucrative and Chummy — There was a
lot happening at the inaugural DealBook conference on Wednesday — and
much of it was undeniably impressive. — Here is what the invita ...

Chemtrail News

I
suspected it of being a Chemtrail and therefore pulled out the video
camera to film it. Many planes went by during the shooting, more than
any other time I have ...
https://chemtrailsnorthnz.wordpress.com/.../chemtrail-and-ufo-...

World News - Top Stories

Sir Ian McKellen has spoken out to clear up confusion over his
health status. The 73-year-old British actor revealed in an interview
with the this week that he has had prostate cancer for the past "six or
seven years". "When you have got it you monitor it and you have to be
careful it doesn' ...

Updated: December 13, 2012 7:47PM Every year, award season in
Hollywood includes both snubs and surprises as key nominations are
announced — and Thursday’s revelation of who will be vying for trophies
at the 70th annual Golden Globe Awards was no exception. Though voted on
only by the 90-som ...

During a recent press trip to Tanzania, I spent a morning on Lake
Tagalala in the heart of the Selous Game Reserve. The lake is teeming
with wildlife, including hippos and dozens of bird species. But it's
best known for its massive crocodile population, said to be one of the
densest in the w ...

This past summer, Alan Greenspan, the former Federal Reserve
chairman, told a magazine how he’d practice the opaque dialect known as
“Fed speak” in his nearly two decades leading the U.S. central bank. He
said to Bloomberg Businessweek that he would think about whether a se
...

TOKYO — A quarterly survey by Japan’s central bank shows major
Japanese manufacturers are increasingly gloomy, due largely to weakening
exports that resulted from antagonisms with China over a territorial
dispute. The Bank of Japan’s “tankan” index for the three ...

I'll
be participating in the WattsUpWithThat answer to Al Gore's 24-hour web
project this week. Additionally, I'll be talking to a university class
tomorrow and addressing a climate skeptics' conference in Munich on
December 1st.

Anna's News

Hollywood
is converting blockbuster films into 4-D because cinemagoers are
shunning pricey multi-dimensional 3-D versionsBut the experience has
left some fans feeling sick, damp and pummeled after watching movies
like Kung Fu Panda 2 and the latest ......
Submitted by Anna Smith to Science & ...

Rory
McIlroy's Tiger-esque performance at Congressional has many golf fans
wondering what the 22-year-old has in store for Royal St. George's, one
of the most difficult courses in the Open Championship rotation. Past
winners Walter Hagen, Sandy Lyle and..
Submitted by Anna Smith to World ...

Snails
are able to survive intact after being eaten by birds, according to
scientists.Japanese white-eyes on the island of Hahajima, Japan feast on
tiny land snails.
Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals | Note-it! | Add a Comment

National
parks represent our country's last stronghold of wilderness. But the
large majority of parks are suffering, too.Ninety-five percent of parks
assessed in a recent study have lost key species that once helped define
them. Meanwhile, 91 percent ....
Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals &nbs ...

The
financial crisis "almost certainly" led to an increase in suicides
across Europe, health experts say.The analysis by US and UK researchers
found a rise in suicides was recorded among working age people from 2007
to 2009 in nine of the 10 nations......
Submitted by Anna Smith to Health & Well ...

Medical Marijuana

corporatetax.procon.org
– NEW ProCon.org Website! – Does lowering the federal corporate income
tax rate result in employers creating more jobs? – Throughout US
corporate tax history, Americans have debated whether or not lowering
the rate results in job creation. Propone ...

socialnetworking.procon.org
- Are social networking sites good for our society? - The 47% of
Americans who use social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, and
LinkedIn have spent billions of minutes social networking in 2012. Our
newly revamped Social Networking site has statistics from over 200 ...

www.procon.org
- - ProCon.org Student Video Contest – The early entry deadline was
Dec. 1, and Mark from Oregon won the $100 Amazon.com gift card.
Congratulations! The final deadline for video entries is Sunday Dec.
16. See what has been submitted so far.

Gyrovague's Raves

Vex,
Hex, Smash, Smooch Constance Hale I wanted really to understand the
relationship between nouns and verbs. Another question that I had: Why
do linguists look so scathingly at grammarians? And why do grammarians
look so scathingly at the history of English? Why is there a divide? And
why is t ...

Vannevar
Bush This has not been a scientist’s war; it has been a war in which
all have had a part. The scientists, burying their old professional
competition in the demand of a common cause, have shared greatly and
learned much. It has been exhilarating to work in effective partnership.
No ...

JOSEPH
EPSTEIN In a loose definition, the “liberal arts” denote college study
anchored in preponderantly Western literature, philosophy, and history,
with science, mathematics, and foreign languages playing a substantial,
though less central, role; in more recent times, the social science
subjec ...

Culture
thrives on conflict and antagonism, not social harmony – a point made
rather memorably by a certain Harry Lime, says philosopher John Gray.
"In Italy, for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror,
murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vin
...

Adrian
Versteegh “It will be necessary to start off with the major fact,”
writes Roland Barthes in Travels in China, “the absolute uniformity of
clothes.” That this should count as a “major fact”—partway through a
journal that opens with a gripe about freshly stained trousers—ought to
provide so ...

In Verbena | Royal Society

As
part of our dissemination activities for the Royal Society ‘People and
the planet’ report, Sir John Sulston FRS and I visited Nairobi for a
series of meetings with policymakers and a public lecture at the
University of Nairobi. While we were there, the African Population and
Health Research C ...

In
2005, the Royal Society’s report Personalised Medicines: hopes and
realities looked at the potential and limitations of pharmacogenetics,
the use of genetics to predict an individual’s response to a drug. The
report came at a time when the Department of Health was entertaining the
idea of imp ...

Members
of the Royal Society’s Vision Committee went back to school yesterday
to meet with pupils from the Paddington Academy. In a session full of
lively debate, pupils challenged the Committee on a wide variety of
issues to do with science and science education. Among the major
concerns they d ...

Last
week’s PolicyLab saw the launch of the government mandated Natural
Capital Committee (NCC). The committee was established earlier this year
and has been tasked with advising government on when, where and how the
UK’s natural resources are being used unsustainably; how action to
protect and ...

Paul
Nurse welcomed the Chancellor’s £600 million investment in science this
lunchtime, saying that the money ‘will hopefully help ensure that our
world leading scientists have world leading facilities with which to
work’. The Society has become accustomed over the past two years to
thanking the ...

NAU Resistance

Regardless
of whether this particular agreement bears fruit for those seeking to
bring the two countries into a closer union, or whether it is just
another waypoint on the road of a much longer and more detailed process,
the very real concerns about the erosion of national sovereignty
implicit i ...

"On
Tuesday December 13th the Minister of the Environment Peter Kent
announced that Canada is removing itself from the Kyoto Protocol. Kent
is pushing for a more unified agreement that would unite all nation's on
a global scale."

By:
Press For Truth (http://www.pressfortruth.ca)
Release Date: 11/9/11
The agenda for a North American Union is underway and a new security
perimeter deal will blur the lines at the border and further erode the
sovereignty of Canadians and Americans. On November 13th Stephen Harper,
Barack Ob ...

Gaea Times

WASHINGTON
- Who says hairbrush can only be used to comb locks? Scientists have
made a hairbrush like device that would be able to monitor mental
activity.
One of the main techniques for measuring and monitoring mental activity,
called functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), can often b ...

LONDON
- Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has told key striker
Wayne Rooney that he must respect the club and its traditions if he
wants to stay on.
Commenting on reports that suggest that the star player wants to leave
Manchester United for another club - either Manchester City or ...

SYDNEY
- Google Street View has spotted a god-like figure floating midair
above a lake in Quarten, Switzerland.
Although the image, discovered by the Gawker blog, is apparently the
result of some sort of light distortion or lens flare, blogger Max Read
has questioned whether it might have more ...

WASHINGTON
- Dogs-apart from being man’s best friend-have a special role to play
in the lives of children with special needs.
A new study by the Universite de Montreal has suggested that
specifically trained service dogs can help reduce the anxiety and
enhance the socialization skills of ...

WASHINGTON
- A new study has revealed human sex hormones influence the structure
and function of the right ventricle (RV) of the heart.
The researchers found that in women receiving hormone therapy, higher
estrogen levels were associated with higher RV ejection fraction and
lower RV end-systol ...

Today's
show features an interview with a representative of Stop Smart Meters
Australia, an organisation which is opposing the introduction of
electricity smart meters which are currently being rolled out in homes
throughout Victoria.
From the petition:
Victorian Citizens are being forced to ...

The
Crew of Free Mind Films, creators of "A Noble Lie". Clockwise from
left: Austin Green, Holland Vandennieuwenhof, Chris Emery and James
Lane.
My guest in the 2nd hour of today's show is Chris Emery, co-producer of
the award winning documentary "A Noble Lie", which exposes the US
government' ...

In
tonight's show we bring you a menagerie of weirdness as we plough
through the many bizarre themes which dominate the news on this
Halloween night.
We look at recent developments in the Julian Assange case, with a
Parliamentary Briefing on the case now in progress.
In the 2nd hour am joine ...

Callum Roberts is a professor of marine conservation at the University
of York in England and author of the 2007 book “The Unnatural History of
the Sea.” His second book, “The Ocean of Life”, was published this
spring. Oceana asked Roberts about the new book and why we need a “New
Deal” fo ...

Our
team in Chile sent us this stunning picture today from just off the
shore of Robinson Crusoe Island, part of the remote Juan Fernandez
archipelago 400 miles West of mainland Chile. In 1704 Scottish castaway
Alexander Selkirk became marooned on the island, serving as the
inspiration for Danie ...

Last night, NBC Nightly News took note of Oceana's most recent troubling
report about the widespread problem of seafood fraud.
The report focused on fish that was purchased in the New York City area
and subjected to DNA testing. That testing revealed, among other
startling findings, tha ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

Empty newsfeed.

Taylor Marsh

Visit
NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
“If nominated, I am now convinced that the confirmation process would be
lengthy, disruptive and costly – to you and to our most pressing
national and international priorities,” Rice wrote in a letter to
President Obama, ...

The
U.S. Supreme Court will hear Prop 8 and DOMA cases. Obviously no one
knows the outcome, but Justice Antonin Scalia provided yet another
indication about his perspective on LGBTs, and they remain decidedly in
the anti-LGBT side of things. At an appearance at Princeton University,
freshman Dun ...

AS
WELL she should. From CBS News: Amid ongoing questions about the
September violence in Benghazi that left four Americans dead, Secretary
of State Hillary Clinton heads to Capitol Hill next week to testify on
the matter, appearing before both House and Senate committees to answer
questions abo ...

“That’s
ridiculous,” said Christie. “I mean, that’s ridiculous. I don’t know
what the basis for that is.” [ABC News] GOVERNOR CHRIS Christie is
wrong. What’s worse is that he appears to be in denial, too. His weight
is an issue when considering him ...

“Nobody
interacts with Hillary Clinton like she’s fading off into the sunset.” –
Philippe Reines, Clinton’s State Department spokesman DO YOU care
what’s being said about Secretary Clinton and 2016? I wonder how many
people want to read analysis and the obligatory c ...

Hudson New York

Syrian
rebels have taken control of the border with Israel, and are
consolidating their presence in the area, according to Israeli defense
sources. One source said that the rebels managed to oust the Syrian
military from the area after months of battles,

In
the ongoing conflict between those Egyptians who strongly oppose a
Sharia-based constitution — moderates, secularists, non-Muslim
minorities — and those who are strongly pushing for it -- the
"Islamists" -- are currently evoking the one argument that

The
Palestinian narrative of victimhood, emphasizing the pitiful condition
of Palestinian refugees, and portraying them as the world's major
refugee problem, has convinced many in the international community to
accept this version of their unfortunate

When
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas returned from New York to
Ramallah and told the Palestinians that he obtained UN recognition of a
Palestinian state within the pre-1967 lines -- namely, the West Bank,
Gaza Strip and east Jerusalem --

It
is now clear that the West was overly hasty in unilaterally recognizing
"Palestine" as a non-member observer state in the UN, against Israel's
wishes and in legal contravention of the Oslo Accords. The decision was
made without providing Israel with a

Urban Survival

The
very first peek at the market this morning showed the futures were up a
tad…but after seeing the Dow bleed off 74 points Thursday, and the
S&P losing 9, Peoplenomics readers will appreciate why in my
personal trading system … Continue reading →

OK,
time to roll up our sleeves for the last time this week, and get into
some serious WuJo stuff. But at foreplay, did you happen to notice,
writes Ssygman, that a record number of people were killed by falling …
Continue reading →

As
I reported at the open yesterday for Peoplenomics readers, the stock
market was right at the juncture where I’d be forced to go long…despite
my natural bearish nature, but that the decision wouldn’t be final until
and unless the … Continue reading →

Reader
Doug kicks on this morning’s discussion of how Life can be improved
upon…picking up on our discussion of sleeping oriented north-south
instead of east-west: “Hi George, Your north-south, turn-off-wifi
discussion is ripe to edge into earthing: Ea ...

The
possibilities that we talked about with Peoplenomics readers seems to
be shaping up. I mean, other than the end of the world, there is a kind
of muddle-through path ahead into 2013 once we get past the current
round … Continue reading →

Radical Chic

Once
you have been to ‘one’ Nigerian party in your life it is safe to say
that you will always know the menu. It is an unwritten rule that you can
be as exotic as you like, but if your party lacks certain fundamental
items, it really isn’t a party. There ‘must’ be J ...

I
once attended a wild party where I had an unusual encounter. It came in
the form of a one night stand. I was a twenty-two year old student,
sent to the US to get my MBA so I could take over my father’s thriving
business someday. My girlfriend whom I’d whimsically thought would
become [...]

This
topic is for you, yes, you! I want to know your opinion on this matter.
What do you think? A 12 year old has a baby, should she be allowed to
keep it? On a biological level this is perhaps not a very common
scenario, but for some reason, Amy is 12 years old [...]

It’s
one of the biggest issues facing sexual relationships today and the
demise of most relationships can usually be traced back to it. But what
exactly is cheating? The dictionary defines it rather unhelpfully as
“marital disloyalty; adultery”. I find this definition almost insulting.
Where do ...

Spending
Christmas in hospital was not how Yinka envisioned her holidays.
Hospitals were places where she received bad news: “I’m sorry your aunt
is dead”; “I’m sorry you can’t concieve children naturally “; and so on.
She and her husband, Tunde had worked hard all year, deferring all
their annu ...

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

Empty newsfeed.

NRDC Switchboard

Matt Skoglund, Wildlife Advocate, Livingston, Montana
Several wolves from Yellowstone National Park have been killed in
wolf-hunts in the Northern Rockies this fall. Of the wolves killed, many
wore radio collars, which researcher ...

David Doniger, Policy Director, Climate and Clean Air
Program, Washington, D.C.
How do you kill a zombie power plant lawsuit? It’s
easier than shooting it in the head. You just grant the motions to
dismiss.
That’s what ...

Peter Lehner, Executive Director, New York City
In the prolonged showdown over the fiscal cliff,
Democrats and Republicans claim to agree on two goals – reducing the
deficit, and doing so in a way that builds a stronger economy in the
long run ...

John Steelman, Climate Program Manager, New York
Last night I saw a truly amazing cinematic event, the
new documentary film, Chasing Ice, which chronicles acclaimed
environmental photographer James Balog’s heroic multi-year effort to
capture t ...

Injustice Everywhere

Here
are the 9 reports of police misconduct tracked for Wednesday, December
12, 2012: Raton, New Mexico: A police officer has resigned following a
recent gathering at his home that allegedly involved underage drinking.
http://ow.ly/g16G5 Oakland, California: A college instructor … Continue
...

Here
are the 11 reports of police misconduct tracked for Tuesday, December
11, 2012: Charleston County, South Carolina: A lawsuit has been filed
against the sheriff’s office and three deputies that alleges the use of
excessive force in a traffic … Continue reading →National Pol ...

Here
are the 9 reports of police misconduct tracked for Friday, December 7,
2012: Lawrence, Indiana: A police officer is facing criminal charges. He
as been accused of using excessive force during an arrest. ow.ly/fVhLe
Hurricane, West Virginia: A man … Continue reading →National Pol ...

Total Collapse

Russian
warships are returning from the coast of Gaza to their home ports in
the Black Sea, the country’s Defense Ministry reported Saturday. The
combat ships include the missile cruiser Moskva, the patrol ship
Smetliviy, large landing ships Novocherkassk and Saratov. They were
heading off Somal ...

Two
Iranian navy warships arrived Saturday morning in Port Sudan, in the
second such visit to Sudan within two months, eyewitnesses and officials
said. “These visits by Iranian navy warships to Sudan come in the
framework of routine exercises by navy forces of friendly nations,” Col.
...

A
decree authorising the armed forces to arrest civilians — a right
previously reserved for police officers alone — will soon be issued by
Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, reported state-owned Al-Ahram daily
Friday. The decree would be in effect until a constitution is approved
and parliamentar ...

The
US Air Force developed a top-secret plan to detonate a nuclear bomb on
the moon as a display of military might at the height of the Cold War.
In an exclusive interview with The Observer, Dr Leonard Reiffel, 73, the
physicist who fronted the project in the late Fifties at the US
military-back ...

The
United States is shifting warships into position to track and possibly
defend against a planned North Korean rocket launch while urging
Pyongyang to cancel its second such attempt this year, the head of the
U.S. Pacific Command said on Thursday. Admiral Samuel Locklear, who
commands U.S. for ...

On
today’s Daily Dose catch the latest in browser vulnerabilities, slot
games, and filtered posts. You can catch The Daily Dose every Monday
through Friday right here on The Next Web.... Keep reading →

Motorola
Mobility is closing down its Korean operations, HBO gets a new CTO
whose pedigree will encourage those looking for improved online
offerings from the broadcaster, and Twitter makes an... Keep reading →

Beyond Zero Emissions

December
13 2012
Martin Ferguson's announcement this morning for $83 million for solar
energy research is a diversion from actually building large solar,
according to Matthew Wright from the climate and energy think-tank
Beyond Zero Emissions.
“While Australia is limiting its large-scale sola ...

By
Richard Keech
Much has been said in the discussion about the introduction of smart
meters. According to Michael West in the Sydney Morning Herald, “smart
meters and ‘flexible pricing’ merely shift the business risk from the
company to the consumer”.
This entirely misses the point that shield ...

BZE's Annual Report for the financial year 2011-12 (and a bit beyond) is now available. You can download it here.
A big well done to volunteers Liem and Robin for their work in putting it together!
(NOTE: Some people have trouble downloading files from our website, with some downloads stopp ...

A
PLAN to transform Port Augusta into a green energy hub has been lauded
at the Civic Trust's annual Awards and Brickbats ceremony.
However, the State Government's axing of heritage advisory services in
its May Budget is the stand-out among this year's brickbats.
The Civic Trust a public t ...

Monga Bay ( News )

Fancy
Nancy’s Splendiferous Christmas and other children's books sold by
publisher HarperCollins show traces of rainforest fiber and are
therefore linked to deforestation in Indonesia, says the Rainforest
Action Network (RAN), an environmental activist group.

Palm
oil is widely acknowledged as one of the most important drivers of
deforestation and forest diminishment in Southeast Asia. Conversion of
forests and peatlands for oil palm plantations is both a substantial
source of greenhouse gas emissions and a major threat to biodiversity —
one st ...

Researchers
in Panama have published the results of the most comprehensive survey
of arthropods in a small area of tropical rainforest. At a high level,
the findings surprise no one: the Panamanian rainforest is full of
insects, spiders, and crustaceans. Yet the results also show how little
is k ...

Sierra Express

His
Excellency the President Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma seems to have the Midas
touch and whenever it comes to developmental drives, whatever he touches
turns into gold as in the case of Wilkinson Road and various other road
networks across the country. (Photo: Solar street lights illuminate
Wilkin ...

Birthday
greetings go out to Mallay Dumbuya (in photo) of 8 Sumaila Town,
Freetown and of Sierra Express Media. As you celebrate your natal day,
wishes of a long-life, good health, God’s richest blessings and all the
good things that you wish for you be yours. May you live long to
celebrate man ...

“With
758 SSS1 Candidates at the Sierra Leone Int. Mission School with
limited space to accommodate them is a great challenge,” said the SSS
principal Mr. Lionel S. Kanu. According to Mr. Lionel S. Kanu the Sierra
Leone Int. Mission School (SLIMS) located at 24 Momoh Lane, Old Wharf,
Wellington, ...

On
Monday the 10th it was indeed a shock at the Magistrate Court No3
presided over by Magistrate Bonkole Shyllon when two lawyers namely
Defence Lawyer Sahid Sesay and prosecuting Lawyer Julian Cole turned the
court into a war zone. The two legal practitioners rained insults at
each other which ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

Farmers
will be allowed to continue selling raw milk at the gate, Food Safety
Minister Kate Wilkinson has announced.Consultation carried out by the
Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) on possible changes to rules for
raw drinking...

Fonterra
has revised its forecast payout range for the 2012/13 season to
$5.90-$6 per kg of milksolids, up 25c per kg compared with the previous
forecast, reflecting a recovery in dairy prices that has taken place
since May.The...

Fonterra
, which raised $525 million through a unit trust for external investors
last month, has hiked its forecast payment to farmers and expects to
see more gains in global dairy prices next year. The dairy cooperative
increased...

The
world's largest global milk processor and dairy exporter wants to move
into New Zealand's best new building in four years, in a $100
million-plus boost for the construction sector.Theo Spierings,
Fonterra's chief executive,...

Fonterra
said it was looking to expand its milk processing capacity in the lower
North Island by building a new milk powder plant at its Pahiatua
site.Fonterra, which last week officially opened a new $500 million
factory at Darfield,...

The death of the Indian sitar maestro, Ravi Shankar (and the
illegitimate dad of singer Norah Jones) earlier this week at
the ripe age of 92 is no doubt a huge loss for the Woodstock
generation. But to Shankar that generation was dead a long time ago.
He might have been an icon of ...

As noted earlier today at
Reason 24/7, California failed terribly at projecting its
November tax revenue. Income tax and corporate tax were both down
from predictions. Altogether revenue was down $806 million from
what the state projected, a 10.8 percent drop. Total tax revenue is
...

The
letter that Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy
(D-Vt.) has sent to drug czar Gil Kerlikowske regarding marijuana
legalization in Colorado and Washington,
noted earlier today by Mike Riggs, is encouraging insofar as it
indicates that a prominent senator of the pr ...

Mercury Rising

An
entry by several NBER members and Sumit Agarwal on the mythology side,
countered by Barry Ritholtz on the reality side: There are two major,
critical questions that show up in the literature surrounding the 1977
Community Reinvestment Act (CRA). The first question is how much
compliance with ...

An
entry by several NBER members and Sumit Agarwal on the mythology side,
countered by Barry Ritholtz on the reality side: There are two major,
critical questions that show up in the literature surrounding the 1977
Community Reinvestment Act (CRA). The first question is how much
compliance with ...

Richard
Luscombe, The Guardian: The scale of abuse at a notorious youth
residential school in Florida has been laid bare with the release of a
report by investigators who say they have evidence of almost 100 deaths
at the institution. Investigators say they believe more graves are yet
to be unco ...

Richard
Luscombe, The Guardian: The scale of abuse at a notorious youth
residential school in Florida has been laid bare with the release of a
report by investigators who say they have evidence of almost 100 deaths
at the institution. Investigators say they believe more graves are yet
to be unco ...

Reality Sandwich

Pot-smokers of the world unite! You have nothing to lose but your pipe
dreams.
Marijuana legalization is a beginning, not an end.
When residents of Colorado and Washington voted to legalize the adult
use of cannabis, it felt like a momentary rush of sobriety in a country
dazed by decade ...

Washington and Colorado marijuana legalization laws go into effect,
former US Presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter speak out against the
global drug war in a new documentary, and the UN General Assembly plans
a Special Session on drug policy in this week's psychedelic news.
& ...

Shift Long Beach and The Evolver Network present Change of Ages, a
multimedia, interactive event exploring the end of the Mayan long-count
calendar, and the significance of indigenous knowledge and culture in a
time of transition.
Thursday December 20th, 2012
6-10pm
The Bungalow Art C ...

With
the end of the Mayan calendar now upon us, I would like to offer some thoughts
regarding where we have been, where we are going, and what this may all mean
for our present lives and the future of humankind. The more aware we are about
the choices we make, the less likely we will contribut ...

Desertification

Rich
countries came to the U.N. climate talks in Doha intent on delaying
needed action on climate change for another three years and a still to
be hammered out new global treaty. This delay will be extraordinarily
expensive and risky. Every year that fossil fuel emissions fail to
decline adds to ...

The
United Nations climate talks in Doha went a full extra 24 hours and
ended without increased cuts in fossil fuel emissions and without
financial commitments between 2013 and 2015. “This an incredibly weak
deal,” said Samantha Smith representing the Climate Action Network, a
coalit ...

Food
prices will soar and hundreds of millions will starve without urgent
action to make major cuts in fossil fuel emissions. That is what is at
stake here on the last day of the U.N. climate talks known as COP 18,
scientists and activists say. Carbon emissions are already disrupting
the world&# ...

United
Nations climate talks are on the edge of collapse Thursday, according
to a coalition of civil society and representatives from half of the
world’s countries. Once again, rich industrialised nations are putting
nothing on the table in terms of increased emissions cuts and financial s
...

While
the Philippines copes with the aftermath of powerful super-typhoon
Bopha, which killed more than 300 people this week, tempers flared at
the U.N. climate summit here. Developing countries are angry the U.S.
and European Union and other rich industrialised countries refuse to
increase their ...

Blogging Canadians

The following disciplinary notice has been edited in terms of
formatting.
THE LAW SOCIETY OF MANITOBA
THE LAW SOCIETY OF MANITOBA
NOTICE OF DISBARMENT
TAKE NOTICE that by resolution of a Panel of the Discipline Committee of
The Law Society of Manitoba, ROBERT LEWIS FISHER was fou ...

@VicPopuli Preserving a free State is an obligation. Keeping/bearing
arms to fulfill obligation is a right. Secede from the oppressive State
by Bryan Runnels
As originally posted on: Bryan Runnels (scythewieldor) on Twitter
December 7, 2012

My article in the Globe and Mail: Canadians now have a lower opinion
of their own government's commitment to public integrity than do
Pakistanis, Iraqis, or Nigerians... Parliamentarians are the watchdogs
of democracy, and it is tragic that so many citizens perceive our
watchdogs as having mu ...

The following disciplinary case summary has been edited in terms of its formatting.
THE LAW SOCIETY OF MANITOBA
DISCIPLINE CASE DIGEST
____________________
Case 11- 02
Member: Terry Peter Beley
Jurisdiction: Winnipeg, Manitoba
Called to the Bar: June 30, 1977
Particulars ...

CUNY SPS Community Blog

Reblogged
from xahndra: I’ve struggled with putting words to my incredible
marathon experience… That’s why it’s taken me so long to even think
about this post; but here I go. The day before the Philly Marathon, with
“Rocky.” The back of my marathon shirt&#8230 ...

Hello
friends, I am writing to tell you about a Red Cross volunteer day to
Far Rockaway, Queens, which you’ve probably heard about. The story of my
last stint at the shelter in Long Island was posted on the CUNY SPS
Community Blog, and I thank them for their initiative. It may also be on
[...]

To
all of the veterans, active troops, and military families in the SPS
community, we thank you! Returning home and making higher education a
goal is not always easy. We asked alum Armando Vega, and current
student Enrique Diaz to share some of their thoughts on being student
veterans. 1. What ...

Hello
friends, Some of you know already that I volunteered at a Red Cross
shelter on Long Island as part of the disaster relief efforts after the
Hurricane Sandy (Monday, 10/29/2012). I’d like to share some of these
experiences with you. You would hardly believe the pace of work at these
p ...

To
the students, faculty, and staff of the SPS community: Much of this
week we have been reaching out and hearing back. The stories of lives
disrupted make it impossible to deny the enormous impact of the storm,
even as it feels impossible to reckon fully with that impact. But we
have also been ...

Dissident Voice

Leah
Bolger, President of Veterans For Peace, applauded a United Nations
Committee this week for raising concerns about the recruitment of
children into the U.S. military, the U.S. killing of children in
Afghanistan, the U.S. detention and torture of children labeled
“combatants,” an ...

A
highly risible tactic of the Tea Partyers in the United States has been
criticism of president Barack Obama as a “socialist”1 (insulting to
Obama but more so to socialists), particularly since he attempted to
reform a medical care system in a country where over 50 million were
without medical ...

In
2005, I preached on the ecological crisis in a sermon I titled “Hope is
for the Weak: The Challenge of a Broken World.” Looking back, I
realize that I had been far too upbeat and optimistic, probably trying
too hard to be liked. Today I want to correct that. Hence, my updated
title: “Hope [...]

Catch
22s Well it seems now that college graduates are up in arms about the
student loan payments that they will have to make after graduation, and
while Congress and the President have taken the necessary measures to
keep student loan rates from increasing, college graduates still must
confront ...

On
July 4, the people of the U.S. marked the passing of another year’s
perfunctory Independence Day festivities. The date, also, was occasioned
by the formal announcement from physicists at CERN (European
Organization for Nuclear Research) that, according to the banner
headline at CERN&#82 ...

Destructionist

Biotech
giant Monsanto has launched a desperate damage control effort in the
aftermath of a French study which found that rats fed on Monsanto’s
genetically-engineered corn were far more likely to suffer tumors, organ
failure and premature death.
Aside from the details of the study, a wider q ...

Biotech
giant Monsanto has launched a desperate damage control effort in the
aftermath of a French study which found that rats fed on Monsanto’s
genetically-engineered corn were far more likely to suffer tumors, organ
failure and premature death.
Aside from the details of the study, a wider q ...

A
shocking new study conducted by French scientists which shows that rats
fed on Monsanto’s genetically modified corn suffered cancer and
premature death has been met with a furious response from GMO
apologists, who are desperately trying to cast doubt on the the study in
an effort to discredit ...

A
shocking new study conducted by French scientists which shows that rats
fed on Monsanto’s genetically modified corn suffered cancer and
premature death has been met with a furious response from GMO
apologists, who are desperately trying to cast doubt on the the study in
an effort to discredit ...

On
Wednesday, New York federal judge Katherine Forrest issued a ruling
which blocked provisions of the NDAA that could have seen American
citizens kidnapped and held indefinitely without charge. In
“permanently” halting the enforcement of the law, Forrest noted how the
plaintiffs presented “evi ...

IPS - Inter Press Services

The
suspect graph of a nuclear explosion reportedly provided to the
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) as evidence of Iranian
computer modeling of nuclear weapons yields appears to have been adapted
from a very similar graph in a scholarly journal article published in
January 2009 and ava ...

Sita
Tamang’s husband went missing sometime in 2004, two years before
Nepal’s civil war came to an end. A native of Dharan, a town about 600
kilometres southeast of Kathmandu, Tamang waited seven years after his
disappearance before she tried to claim compensation offered by the
government after ...

Half
asleep, Anuary lies exhausted on his bed in Amana Hospital in Dar es
Salaam, Tanzania’s capital. His mother, Mariam Saidi, sits on the edge
of his mattress, staring blankly out of the window. Every now and then,
she turns to wipe her 18-month-old son’s forehead. When she brought
Anuary to t ...

Argentina
is creating protected marine areas at a rate of knots. In the last 10
years, the preservation of saltwater areas has expanded, and for the
first time an Atlantic ocean zone is being added to the list. In late
November, Congress approved the creation of two coastal parks in ocean
waters ...

Three
and a half hours away from the nearest town along a dirt road, 38
families are struggling to preserve their land, customs and language in
Bolivia’s Gran Chaco region. They are the Tapiete Indians, who refuse to
disappear. In this community of makeshift shacks in a clearing in the
forest al ...

My AntiWar

Summary:
WASHINGTON, Dec 13 2012 (IPS) – The suspect graph of a nuclear
explosion reportedly provided to the International Atomic Energy Agency
(IAEA) as evidence of Iranian computer modeling of nuclear weapons
yields appears to have been adapted from a very similar graph in a
scholarly j ...

Summary:
Talks between the U.N atomic agency and Iran are expected to lead to a
deal next month on how to conduct an investigation into Tehran’s
disputed nuclear programme, the chief U.N. inspector said after
returning from Tehran on Friday. source: Reutersread more

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

Summary:
Talks between the U.N atomic agency and Iran are expected to lead to a
deal next month on how to conduct an investigation into Tehran's
disputed nuclear programme, the chief U.N. inspector said after
returning from Tehran on Friday.
source: Reutersread more

Summary:
WASHINGTON, Dec 13 2012 (IPS) - The suspect graph of a nuclear
explosion reportedly provided to the International Atomic Energy Agency
(IAEA) as evidence of Iranian computer modeling of nuclear weapons
yields appears to have been adapted from a very similar graph in a
scholarly journ ...

Summary:
The Coalition is supposed to be made up of Syrian dissidents and
opposition groups from across the spectrum. But it is largely another
exile group without strong roots inside the country, and vehemently
rejected by the armed rebel groups fighting the Assad regime on the
ground in Syr ...

Summary:
Economic sanctions are not only shattering the lives of the Iranian
people but also strangling Iran’s social and cultural development. Iran
is headed for a humanitarian catastrophe unless steps are taken to avert
it.
source: Fair Observerread more

Summary:
The diagram leaked to the Associated Press this week is nothing more
than either shoddy sources or shoddy science. In either case, the world
can keep calm and carry on.
source: Bulletin of Atomic Scientists website.read more

The Daily Galaxy

A radical new approach to the question of life's origin has been
proposed by two Arizona State University scientists that attempts to
dramatically redefine the problem. The researchers – Paul Davies, an ASU
Regents' Professor and director of the Beyond Center for Fund ...

On the evening of 13 and the morning of 14 December, skywatchers across
the world will be looking up as the Geminid meteor shower reaches its
peak, in potentially one of the best night sky events of the year. At
its peak and in a clear, dark sky tens of 's ...

Titan has been considered a “unique world in the solar system” since
1908 when, the Spanish astronomer, José Comas y Solá, discovered that it
had an atmosphere, something non-existent on other moons. It seems
perfectly appropriate that one of the prime candidates for li ...

Black holes are surrounded by many mysteries, but now researchers from
the Niels Bohr Institute, among others, have come up with new
groundbreaking theories that can explain several of their properties.
The research shows that black holes have properties that resemble ...

Researchers from The University of Queensland, Central Queensland
University and Wollongong University made the discovery while
investigating rapid climate change and its catastrophic impacts in the
remote Kimberley region of northwest Australia. Their findings were
publi ...

Natural News

Most
people vastly underestimate the amount of salt they will need in a
survival scenario. This happens because all our food is pre-salted right
now by food manufacturers. So we don't think we need extra salt. But in
the absence of processed, pre-salted food, an individual's...

Middle
school students who are more physically fit get better grades and
perform better on standardized tests, according to a study conducted by
researchers from Michigan State University (MSU) and published in the
Journal of Sports Medicine and Physical Fitness.
According...

(NaturalNews)Following are three powerful practices from ancient oriental medicine that will serve your health and well-being.
1. THE HUMAN BODY POSSESSES A PROFOUND AND POWERFUL REGENERATIVE CHEMISTRY. PRESUME THAT POWER UNDER ALL CONDITIONS
Time and time a ...

Most
women do not know how much weight they are supposed to gain during
pregnancy, according to a study published in the Australian and New
Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology.
"Pregnancy is an important time that influences being overweight in both
mothers...

Washington
state made more history on December 6 when it became the first American
state to officially legalize the recreational use of marijuana. As
reported by Reuters, Initiative 502 became law at the stroke of midnight
that day, prompting hundreds of excited Washingtonians...

Threat Level

A
petition demanding the President Barack Obama administration build a
Death Star like the one in Star Wars reached 25,000-plus signatures
Thursday, a threshold requiring the government to respond whether it
will build the fictional weapon capable of annihilating planets ...

A
federal judge on Friday is to hold the first hearing following an
appellate court's decision reinstating allegations the government is
siphoning Americans' communications from telecoms to the National
Security Agency without warrants. The new judge on the case, U.S. ...

Hackers
broke into the industrial control system of a New Jersey air
conditioning company earlier this year, using a backdoor vulnerability
in the system, according to an FBI memo made public this week.

In
a secret government agreement granted without approval from lawmakers,
the U.S. attorney general recently granted the National Counterterrorism
Center sweeping new powers to store dossiers on U.S. citizens, even if
they are not suspected of a crime.

PERRspectives : Blog

When
a federal judge ruled in August that Texas can withhold millions of
dollars from Planned Parenthood and other family planning clinics,
Governor Rick Perry proclaimed it a "win for Texas women." As it turns
out, Perry's crusade against Planned Parenthood isn't a win for either
the women of ...

It's
bad enough that obstructionist Republicans in Congress have shattered
the record for filibusters, blocked President Obama's judicial at an
unprecedented rate and stonewalled economy-boosting legislation like the
American Jobs Act. Now for the second time in as many years,
extortionist GOP ...

Among
the very worst practices of American broadcast news is the "focus group
of one." That is, reporters casually substitute the tale of a single
person, company or community for actual analysis of a complex issue.
And so it was Sunday, when CBS Evening News profiled Rod Hudson of
Quicksilver ...

For
Democrats, the 2012 presidential campaign has produced some delicious
ironies. For starters, Mitt Romney's share of the final vote will come
in at a memorable 47 percent, the same figure he used to disparage half
the electorate as self-described "victims" bought off by "free stuff"
and "gif ...

This
week, former President Bill Clinton urged calm in the face of
Washington's stand-off over the so-called fiscal cliff. "They are
moving toward a deal," Clinton assured Americans, suggesting that the
current posturing by both parties is "just a Kabuki dance."
Unfortunately, Republicans have ...

Blackspot News Feed

An
explosive new documentary looks at a case once referred to as "the
crime of the century”: the Central Park Five. Many people have heard
about the case -- but far too few know that innocent men were imprisoned
as a result. The film tells the story of how five black and Latino
teenagers were ar ...

With
the Republican Party in a state of turmoil following Mitt Romney's loss
three weeks ago, we begin today's show with a guest who was once one of
the most influential Republican strategists. In 1969 Kevin Phillips
wrote the groundbreaking book, "The Emerging Republican Majority."
Newsweek des ...

Consortium News

TruthOut

The
US is now at war in a third Muslim country, according to the "official
tally" (that is, counting Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya, but not Pakistan
or Yemen, for example.) But Congress has never authorized or debated the
US military intervention in Libya. (A sharply disputed claim holds ...

In
a nuclear crisis, life becomes a nightmare for those people trying to
make sense of the uncertainties. Imaginably, the questions are endless.
Radiation is invisible, how do you know when you are in danger? How long
will this danger persist? How can you reduce the hazard to yourself and
famil ...

About
to turn thirty, Conor Grennan planned a year-long trip around the
world. He started his trip with a three-month stint volunteering in the
Little Princes Orphanage in war-torn Nepal. What was supposed to be just
a three-month experience changed Conor's life, and the lives of
countless other ...

Planetsave

NASA’s
Cassini spacecraft has just discovered and imaged a large river valley
on Saturn’s moon Titan. The river is more than 200 miles long, spanning
from its headwaters to the mouth of a large sea. This is the first time
that images of a river system this large have been taken anywh ...

The
venom from arguably the most venomous animal in the world, the box
jellyfish, can be significantly slowed down simply by administering
zinc, new research has found. The Chironex species of box jellyfish is
one of the most venomous animals in the world, it is capable of very
rapidly killing a ...

A
new analysis of sediments from the island of Bonaire in the Caribbean
makes a convincing case for a tsunami dating back 3,300 years, one that
had a massive impact on the island’s ecosystem. Scientists studied
sediments that suggested the tsunami had entirely changed the coastal
ecosystem ...

Here’s
one of those science stories that seem to make no sense on the surface:
according to new research Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
(PIK) increased snowfall over Antarctica as a result of climate change
is actually countered by an increase in ice-flow to the ocean, up to ...

The
last two years have been banner ones for high-resolution imaging of the
Earth. And as remarkable as these images are, they still (non-moving)
images — photographs of but one moment in time (or a single, composite
image of several moments). But just last week, at the annual American
Geo ...

Axis of Logic

"The American people are being disenfranchised,
disinherited, and enslaved."
The PBS
Documentary "The Warning" proves the Illuminati bankers deliberately sabotaged
the financial system before 2008. This was not the first time nor will it be the
last."Economic c ...

22
June 2012
CIA agents have been deployed to Turkey to organize the arming of the
so-called rebels in Syria seeking the overthrow of the government of
President Bashar al-Assad, the New York Times reported Thursday.
The report, citing information provided by senior US officials as well a
...

Río
de Janeiro, June 21 (Prensa Latina) Foreign ministres from member
countries of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) are scheduled
to leave today for Paraguay to discuss the situation in that country in
the wake of decisión by the Chamber of Deputies to open an impeachment
against Pre ...

Editor's
Note: Does this sound familiar to anyone? It was 3 years ago this month
that democratically-elected President Zelaya was thrown out of office
by a coup in Honduras backed by the US State Department. In January,
2010 we published Mike Whitney's article, In South America, left-wing
presid ...

22
June 2012
Australian and US governments “playing word games”
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange spoke out today from the Ecuadorian
embassy in London about the escalating assault on his democratic rights
and why he had been compelled to seek political asylum in Ecuador.
Interviewed b ...

They Gave Us a Republic

By
@BGinKC
I don't advocate violence, but Steve Crowder, the jerk from Fox who got
punched in the head a couple of days ago earned a hell of a lot worse
beating than he got, and the Michigan State Police haven't come right
out and said they agree with me, but it's implied.
Don't let the door hit ...

By
@BGinKC
Idaho's Otter bucks the GOP trend. The Governor of the largely rural,
underserved and elderly state announced on Tuesday that he will set up a
state insurance exchange, in the interest of the residents - and
hospitals in the state.
Meanwhile, in Missouri...Governor Nixon is pushing fo ...

By
@TedFrier
Recently a friend called me a "partisan hack" unfit to have a debate
with because I rejected the Fox News party line that the "terrorist"
attack on our Benghazi consulate was a scandal of epic, Watergate-like
proportions.
He also found it unconscionable that rather than findi ...

Well,
the wind blew and the shit flew and Hostess lasted but a week or two.
The ink wasn't even dry on the election certifications before
Hostess... or what remained of Hostess after it had been picked clean by
private equity companies and hedge fund investors... folded with the
right usin ...

By
@BGinKC
What could possibly go wrong? The GOP is on a mission to figure out
"what went wrong" in November, and they are tasking the same people who
had them convinced that victory was inevitable - Ari Fleisher and Henry
Barbour, two of the more prominent so-called "poll truthers" - to find
th ...

Care 2

"Law-abiding
citizens don't have anything to fear from the Klan," Ancona said,
adding that if he saw a car being broken into, he would report the issue
to police whether or not the car was owned by a white person.
Submitted by Kit B. to Society & Culture | Note-it! ...

Paul
McCartney teams with Nirvana survivors for new song and Michael Stipe
duets with Chris Martin on "Losing My Religion" as perhaps the greatest
concert lineup of the new century comes together to help victims of the
storm of the century
Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Society & Culture &n ...

Remnants
of an Iron-Age feast, including cattle skulls and 13 cauldrons, have
been unearthed in Chiseldon, United Kingdom, according to a report in
the latest British Archaeology The discovery marks the largest grouping
of early cauldrons ever found
Submitted by Marty Powell to Science & Te ...

Workers
are getting a smaller piece of the pie in booming China and
economically stressed Europe alike, the United Nations labor agency said
Friday, chalking up the trend to technological strides, globalization
and the weakening muscle of labor unions.
Submitted by J.L. A. to Business |&n ...

With 49 journalists imprisoned for their work, according to CPJ's
annual worldwide prison census, released today, Turkey holds more
individuals behind bars than Iran (45), China (32), or Eritrea (28).
This number is down from 61.
Submitted by Rob and Jay B. to World | Note-it ...

No Quarter

Damn.
Am I disappointed. I was so hoping that Rice would stick it out and
replace Hillary. Why? Susan Rice, while a smart, accomplished person, is
as smooth as sandpaper toliet tissue in a cactus outhouse. She would
have been a disaster at State. Sadly, she has now taken herself out of
considera ...

The
history of the United States meddling in the affairs of other countries
is long and tawdry. We had success in some places, such as Greece,
where we helped stem the tide of Communism. But the record in other
places–e.g., Iran, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, Egypt–is tarnished at
best ...

The
fundamental difference between genuine conservatives and genuine
liberals is this–liberals believe they can make people do what they, the
liberals, conceive as the right thing by passing laws and imposing
sanctions. See, liberals know what is best for others and do not trust
people to ...

“Michigan
Right-To-Work Union protest mob attacks tent in Lansing” I was just
watching “The Five” on Fox, and wanted to see what all the “ruckus” was
about. Bob Beckel pointed out that Michigan ranks 46th of the 50 states
in unemployment (currently 9.1%). Beck ...

I’ve
usually considered myself “libertarian” in most regards. I used to
think that it was alright if people wanted to smoke pot. “Let people
make their own choice,” I used to think. However, I have changed my
position and feel strongly that marijuana should be tight ...

Futurismic

Perhaps
it’s because of the economy is beginning – finally – to pick up in the
US. Perhaps it is because I’m sick to death of bad election-year
politics, so I’m looking at anything else that comes along of interest.
Maybe it’s even because I wrote about creative destruction the last time
I did a ...

I
get a fairly regular flow of emails about independent film projects.
Most of them, to be honest, bounce straight off me – which says less
about their quality than it does about my own taste in cinema.
Independent cinema – like independent music and literature – has lots of
pr ...

So,
I stand accused of censorship by someone whose comment I declined to
approve on this post. I figure anyone willing to throw around
accusations of censorship is probably a big fan of radical transparency;
hence, by way of amelioration, here is the digital papertrail for the
full exchange. (Em ...

Soooooo,
yeah – I’ve been busy. Did you miss me? New job, Masters degree…
doesn’t leave a lot of spare time, so it doesn’t. But it’s been quiet
here too long, so it’s time to dust down the soapbox and run a
mic-check. One-two, one-two. The Future Always ...

Last
month I pondered the extent to which the Arab Spring and Occupy
Everything are socially-driven acts of creative destruction. Creative
destruction is defined as a “process of industrial mutation that
incessantly revolutionizes the economic structure from within,
incessantly destroying ...

Therapy News

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Mountaintop Removal

Explo
Systems faced scrutiny before Camp Minden scare
Shreveport Times
The company also came under scrutiny in West Virginia, where it was
using the old military explosive tetryl in mountaintop removal mining
for Catenary Coal Co. in 2006 and 2007, according to documents reviewed
by The Associat ...

I'm
proud of Livonia
The Livingston County News
Livonia's about the same size as the place I grew up in Southwestern
Virginia, and has a lot of the same character — minus the coal trucks
belching diesel fumes or the practice of mountaintop removal to extract
coal from deep underground de ...

Concert
for Sandy Relief
Current TV
CHASE also supports mountaintop removal and coal plants through their
financing... Coal=Sandy... How ironic. My prayers are with those in the
Rockaways, Staten Island, Brooklyn and NJ who still live in 3rd world
squalor and we will come back. But we ...

The
Blame Game: The Death of Coal in the U.S.
Energy Digital
Mining jobs have dwindled for 40 years in the king-of-coal state, thanks
to competition from Wyoming's vast Powder River Basin and the advent of
mountaintop-removal mining, requiring fewer miners to go underground.
What's more, ...

Forbes
Underground
Coal Gasification: A Trend Worth Watching
Forbes
2) it has a lower environmental footprint, as it does not involve strip
mining or mountaintop removal. 3) it leaves coal's most toxic elements –
mercury, arsenic, and lead – largely underground. 4) it may create a
low-carbon ...

Memeorandum

Carlo Muñoz / The Hill:
Report: Hagel likely top White House pick for Department of Defense
chief — Former Nebraska Republican senator and Vietnam veteran Chuck
Hagel has taken the top spot on the Obama administration's shortlist of
candidates to replace Defense Secreta ...

Mick Brown / Telegraph:
In truth, Ravi Shankar couldn't stand the hippies — The godfather of
world music had little time for audiences who misunderstood his art —
Ravi Shankar always displayed a slightly ambivalent attitude to the
extraordinary enthusiasm wit ...

Kate Zernike / New York Times:
Promise vs. Reality in Newark on Mayor's Watch — NEWARK — When snow
blanketed this city two Christmases ago, Mayor Cory A. Booker was
celebrated around the nation for personally shoveling out residents who
had appealed for help on Twitter.& ...

David Morgan / CNBC:
Only 15 States Opt to Run Obamacare Exchanges — Only 15 states have
told the federal government they plan to operate health insurance
exchanges under President Barack Obama's reform law, leaving Washington
with the daunting task of creating online marketpl ...

AlterNet Top Stories

By now, many have heard the name of Savita Halappanavar, whose death
in a Galway hospital this fall was a chilling reminder of how abortion
bans can be deadly.That case had the benefit of a vocal and angry person
to speak on the dead woman’s behalf — her husband, Praveen. H ...

Last week I argued that the debate over taxes—a tussle at the heart of
the current “fiscal cliff” discussions—is actually one about racial
justice. Since questions of right and wrong must ultimately become about
action, what America needs is a new tax pol ...

The banking giant HSBC has escaped indictment for laundering billions
of dollars for Mexican drug cartels and groups linked to al-Qaeda.
Despite evidence of wrongdoing, the U.S. Department of Justice has
allowed the bank to avoid prosecution and pay a $1.9 billion fine. No
top H ...

Happy holidays! Tis the season for family togetherness, holiday
parties, cold weather, and for the majority of us, shopping. So this is a
good time of year to take a look at why we buy what we buy, and how
stores manipulate us in order to get every dollar they can out of our
pockets.Even the s ...

This article was published in partnership
with GlobalPossibilities.org.If acclaimed authors Upton Sinclair (The
Jungle), Jeremy Rifkin (Beyond Beef) and John Robbins (Diet for a New
America) haven’t given you enough reasons over the last century to be
wary of the meat industry, the ...

Threat Level

A
petition demanding the President Barack Obama administration build a
Death Star like the one in Star Wars reached 25,000-plus signatures
Thursday, a threshold requiring the government to respond whether it
will build the fictional weapon capable of annihilating planets ...

A
federal judge on Friday is to hold the first hearing following an
appellate court's decision reinstating allegations the government is
siphoning Americans' communications from telecoms to the National
Security Agency without warrants. The new judge on the case, U.S. ...

Hackers
broke into the industrial control system of a New Jersey air
conditioning company earlier this year, using a backdoor vulnerability
in the system, according to an FBI memo made public this week.

In
a secret government agreement granted without approval from lawmakers,
the U.S. attorney general recently granted the National Counterterrorism
Center sweeping new powers to store dossiers on U.S. citizens, even if
they are not suspected of a crime.

Equality Trust

The
UK’s approach to drug policy appears simplistic in several ways. Seeing
all drug use as invariably problematic can reduce the
cost-effectiveness of policy. Equally, drug problems need to be seen and
addressed within their wider social and economic context; entrenched
drug problems appear to ...

Visit
the website of One Society which works in partnership with The Equality
Trust.
One Society draws on a wealth of research which shows that large divides
in income at the top and bottom of society – beyond ‘proportional
rewards’ – are damaging to our economy and society, not just for those
...

PDA AMERICA

Wikiarguments: A Practical Plan to Get Big Money Out of Politics
By Carmen Yarrusso
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.”–Henry David Thoreau
Clearly, our government ...

Little Victories!
Field Site:
onenationpda.org
California ADEM elections:
Congratulations to all our PDA California friends and allies who
completed a sweep up and down at the state at the recent CA Democratic
Party Delegate elections. This will put the ...

William
John Cox
The shooter of Congresswoman Gifford acted as a domestic suicide
terrorist on the political “battleground” of American politics. His
YouTube postings and “goodby” phone messages are ominously reminiscent
of the traditional farewell videos ...

Marler Blog

The
Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) and Loblaw Companies Ltd. are
warning the public not to consume certain Butcher’s Choice Beef Burgers
because this product may be contaminated with E.... Continue Reading

The
Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) is warning the public not to
consume the Golden Boy brand Inshell Mixed Nuts described below because
they may be contaminated with Salmonella. The... Continue Reading

AutoblogGreen

Filed
under: Sedan, Hirings/Firings/Layoffs, Earnings/Financials, Electric
Plug In Cars is reporting that there have been "massive layoffs" at
California electric vehicle startup Coda Automotive. Apparently, more
than 50 employees, "including a substantial part of its sales and
marketing staf ...

Filed
under: LA Auto Show, Hybrid, Sedan, Ford
After three years that saw a diesel, a plug-in and a natural gas vehicle
win Green Car Journal's Green Car of the Year award, the Ford Fusion
won the title this year at the start of the second day of the LA Auto
Show. The Fusion was nominated in ...

Filed
under: Budget, Hatchback, Ford, Quick Spins
There's an analogy to diesel engines hiding in the new Ford Fiesta with
the 1.0-liter EcoBoost powerplant. There's still a segment of the
population that has bad memories of diesel engines, and that makes it
harder for Audi or Volkswagen to se ...

Filed
under: Hybrid, Lincoln
Just how important are all the luxury touches of a Lincoln compared to a
Ford? They'd better be worth a two-miles-per-gallon penalty, since
that's what buyers will be hit with if they choose the MKZ Hybrid over
the 47-mpg Fusion Hybrid. Ford announced today that t ...

Filed under: Hybrid, Sedan, Honda, First DrivesThe Accord Gets Friendly With A Volt-esque Powertrain
After 30 years, Honda is trying to teach the old Accord new tricks, and they're of the plug-in variety.
We've been teased by various prototypes at auto shows and in spy shots, but Honda ...

Camera Obscura

http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935025/pathos-and-pathology-cinema.html
September 1, 2004... Because infinity--for the eye--begins just a few meters away from the retina....
--Roger Caillois, "The Image"
There are at least two shots in Todd Haynes's work that recur so ...

http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935026/incredible-shrinking-star-todd.html
September
1, 2004... Critics have consistently characterized the films of Todd
Haynes within the terms of what B. Ruby Rich described in 1992 as the
"new queer cinema"--films whose style displayed traces ...

http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935031/written-screen-mediation-and.html
September
1, 2004... Recently, while engaging in one of my favorite forms of
procrastination--using my computer to search for mid-century modern
bargains on eBay rather than using it to engage in more rigo ...

http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935030/traumatic-postmodern-histories-velvet.html
September
1, 2004... If modernity was characterized by and imagined itself in
terms of a particular awareness of time and history--the unfolding of
social, political, and technological projects of ...

Democracy Now!

By Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan
Pfc. Bradley Manning was finally allowed to speak publicly, in his own
defense, in a preliminary hearing of his court-martial. Manning is the
alleged source of the largest intelligence leak in U.S. history. He was
an intelligence analyst in the U.S. Army, ...

As Venezuela says President Hugo Chávez has undergone successful cancer
surgery in Cuba, after disclosing that his cancer had returned, we
revisit a 2009 interview in which he discusses climate change and
President Obama. Democracy Now! ’s Amy Goodman spoke with Chávez at the
2009 Unit ...

Curators at Smithsonian have included Democracy Now! co-host Juan
González’s book, Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America on
their holiday gift guide for history lovers. This comes as the film
based on his book has won an award for the best use of archival footage
at the ...

By Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan
DOHA , Qatar—The 18th U.N. climate-change summit is taking place in
the small but immensely wealthy Gulf emirate of Qatar, the largest per
capita emitter of greenhouse gases in the world. Delegates, press,
dignitaries and the legions of low-paid, foreign ...

Twelve students have barricaded themselves inside a campus building of
New York City’s Cooper Union demanding the school affirm its commitment
to free education. Cooper Union recently approved graduate student
tuition for the first time in its 110-year history, and students fear
the undergradua ...

Suzie-Q

The
New York Times Published: November 7, 2012 President Obama spoke in
Chicago on Tuesday night after winning re-election. Transcript: Tonight,
more than 200 years after a former colony won the right to determine
its own destiny, the task of perfecting our union moves forward.
(Cheers, applause ...

The
President has a double digit lead in early voting in Ohio! Alright
America! Let’s bring it like no other election before and vote this
election straight BLUE! In 2008 I called this Hammer Time and it IS
HAMMER TIME!! Let’s Go!

PRESIDENT
BARACK OBAMA AND FORMER GOV. MITT ROMNEY PARTICIPATE IN A CANDIDATES
DEBATE, HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY, HEMPSTEAD, NEW YORK OCTOBER 16, 2012
SPEAKERS: FORMER GOV. MITT ROMNEY, R-MASS. PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA CANDY
CROWLEY, MODERATOR CROWLEY: Good evening from Hofstra University in
Hempstead, ...

Addicting
Info October 11, 2012 By Matthew Desmond Here’s the transcript, via the
New York Times: MARTHA RADDATZ: Good evening, and welcome to the first
and only vice presidential debate of 2012, sponsored by the Commission
on Presidential Debates. I’m Martha Raddatz of ABC News, and I am honore
...

Solari

Fiscal Cliff Monday December 10, 2012 Investment advisor Catherine
Austin Fitts offered analysis and commentary regarding the current
‘fiscal cliff’ that the United States is facing. If Congress doesn’t
act, the Bush era tax cuts, and the payroll tax decrease will end on
Janua ...

By RT.com The next generation of military drones, unveiled by a leading
US manufacturer, will not just carry a limited supply of rockets – but
will likely be fitted with an ultra-light laser, capable of repeatedly
destroying objects at the speed of light. “It would give us an unlimited
magazine ...

Transcript
of Your Taxes in 2013 is now available to Subscribers! From the
transcript: Catherine: Let’s talk a little bit about the fiscal cliff
and your goals. It’s very important before the end of the year. Are
there going to be changes in the tax code? And again, we don’t know for
sure what’s ...

By
Ben Brumfield His music transcended trends and cultural barriers.
Pandit Ravi Shankar’s life, which traversed nearly a century, ended
Tuesday. The legendary sitar player, who taught Beatle George Harrison
how to play the stringed instrument and brought Indian music to the
West, passed a ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

ISLAMABAD–The
apparent links between Pakistan and Faisal Shahzad are certainly cause
for concern, but let’s not lose site of things here. The attack in Times
Square was a fizzle. The rush to claim credit is a bit embarassing for
the TTP and looks like it was — like the attack itself — a rush job ...

Stepping
up
University at Buffalo The Spectrum
The president of Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari, recognized the direness of
the situation and began to mobilize military forces to combat the
Taliban. ...
and more »

BBC
News
Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of Afghan women
Chicago Tribune
Would nuclear-armed Pakistan become even more vulnerable to its own
Taliban insurgency? Will a defeat embolden America's enemies? That line
of thinking must ...
Vietnam syndrome has begun in AfghanistanSri L ...

Officials:
Campus blasts perplexing
United Press International
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 21 (UPI) -- The International Islamic
University, where bomb blasts killed at least six people, is a unique
Pakistani institution ...
and more »

Schools
closed in Pakistan after bombing
GMA news.tv
An Associated Press reporter met three Taliban fighters Tuesday
traveling in a car with darkened windows at Shaktoi, a town close to the
border between ...
and more »

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

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Sideways News

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Fabius Maximus

Summary:
Today we have a follow-up by Paul Schulte to Does corruption limit
China’s growth, or pose a threat to its existence? He looks at the
leading emerging nations, comparing them to the US and UK at similar
point in their evolution to greatness. . Guest Post by Paul Schulte
Institutional In ...

Summary:
A trick of propagandists is giving rebuttals to theories held only by a
few extremists, and ignoring the far stronger theories held by
thoughtful opponents. That gives the illusion of strength while
marginalizing opponents. It works only when your side dominate the
media. Which neithe ...

Summary:
Critics of China often cite its high level of corruption as a limiting
factor to its growth, or a possible cause of its fall — or even
disintegration. Like so many of American’s views about China, it’s
false. Probably a way to diffuse awareness that a powerful rival ...

Summary:
The productivity of the next industrial revolution — based on
semi-intelligent machines, with sensors and manipulators — will create
fantastic abundance. Perhaps on a scale and nature we cannot imagine.
The question is choice: how we divide the results. Here are two extreme
...

Summary:
The number of households getting food stamps tells us little about the
future (ie, it’s not a leading indicator). It tells us something about
the present. And reporting about it tells us much about the reporter.
America will become a stronger nation when we demand high-quality s ...

Open Your Eyes News

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The Progressive Realist

“The
dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The
occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the
occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We
must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.”
That’ ...

Two
U.S. government reports released this week paint a grim picture of
security and anti-corruption efforts in Afghanistan. An investigation by
the U.S. agency that oversees Afghanistan reconstruction found that
Afghan officials are resisting efforts to track the billions of dollars
in cash f ...

Top
stories from the DAWNS Digest mobile app.
Syrian Humanitarian Response Plan Woefully Underfunded
Everyone agrees Syria is a tragedy, but donors are not ponying up. “The
Syria humanitarian response remains seriously underfunded. So far, only
51 percent of the required US$348 million has been ...

Congressman
Howard Berman has had a distinguished career in the House of
Representatives. He will leave Congress as the top Democrat on the House
Foreign Affairs Committee at the end of the term, having lost a tight
race to a fellow Democrat in California.
Congressman Berman, though, is leaving ...

Looks
as if the Syrian military has decided to launch some Scud missiles at
rebel positions:
Syrian forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad have fired Scud
missiles at rebel fighters in recent days, Obama administration
officials said on Wednesday.
The move represents a significant escalation ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

Joe Lieberman left the Senate for the last time today, and the
Washington Post‘s Dana Milbank was there to witness his lonely
departure. For Milbank, Senate Democrats’ clear disdain for the
Connecticut senator is further evidence of the polarization and
incivility that mark modern Washington:
A ...

After weeks of attacks from Senate Republicans, U.N. Ambassador Susan
Rice has withdrawn herself from consideration for Secretary of State.
Here’s a portion of her letter to President Obama:
I am highly honored to be considered by you for appointment as Secretary
of State. I am fully confident ...

Liberals often joke about how all it takes is one backbench Democratic
member of Congress looking at another one funny to produce a "Dems in
Disarray!" headline. But today the Republicans truly are in disarray.
They just got whupped in a presidential election; they can't quite seem
to figure ou ...

Despite the fact that Democrats have already agreed to large spending
cuts, the Republican position continues to be that further reductions
are needed, despite the fact that spending on social programs has
already been cut to the bone.
The problem, of course, is that there just isn’t much money ...

At a press conference in April 2012, New York Times reporter Binyamin
Appelbaum asked Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke to respond to
criticism that he wasn’t doing enough to bring down unemployment.
Bernanke responded:
“[T]he question is: Does it make sense to actively seek a higher inflat
...

Sciencebase

I’ve
mentioned this bizarre-seeming effect in which a Slinky seems to defy
gravity. It doesn’t, of course, it just takes a finite time for the
“fact” that the top is no longer supported to reach the bottom and the
whole spring to hit the deck. Researcher discusses it in t ...

If
you’re smarter than other people it won’t make you personally happier
but the brightest nations score high on measures of happiness compared
to countries with lower intellectual ranking, according to a study by
Ruut Veenhoven of the Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands an
...

Hyperemesis
gravidarum (HG) is a severe form of nausea and vomiting in pregnancy
that is different from the more common nausea and vomiting known as
morning sickness. The term hyperemesis meaning “excessive vomiting” from
the Greek hyper meaning above and beyond and emesis, vomiting, ...

Writing
in JACS recently, chemists at Yale University have reported details of
the active site in the pigment molecule melanopsin. Melanopsin is
present in the eye, but is not involved in vision. Instead it responds
to light that enters the eye and reaches neurones (ganglions) deep
within the re ...

NASA’s
venerable spacecraft, Voyager 1, has entered the farthest reaches of
our solar system ahead of hitting interstellar space. Scientists refer
to this new region as a magnetic highway for charged particles because
our Sun’s magnetic field lines are connected to interstellar magne ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

Congressman
Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement on the
NDAA:
“Today, this House will send the National Defense Authorization Act
(NDAA) to conference. Contrary to its title, the bill does not provide
for the protection of the American people. It expands war. It fu ...

The
House Judiciary Committee today conducted an overdue discussion about
the United States policy of using drones to target and kill American
citizens and others overseas. The policy has come under criticism for
killing innocent civilians and inciting radicalization. The Committee
discussed H. ...

December
13, 2012 – The world’s largest denim brand, Levi’s, today committed to
eliminate all releases of hazardous chemicals throughout its entire
supply chain and products by 2020, following public pressure in response
to Greenpeace’s global Detox campaign.read more

Conservation
groups filed a lawsuit today challenging the U.S. Export-Import Bank’s
nearly $3 billion in financing for a massive Australian fossil fuel
facility in the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area. Construction and
operation of the liquefied natural gas facility will threaten sea ...

The
Jubilee USA Network, an alliance of religious denominations, human
rights groups and development agencies focusing on global poverty, says
in a recently-released statement: “If corporations paid the $150 billion
in taxes that they avoid per year through offshore tax loopholes it
would ...

Common Dreams-Views

Peter Lehner
In the prolonged showdown over the "fiscal cliff," Democrats and
Republicans claim to agree on two goals – reducing the deficit, and
doing so in a way that builds a stronger economy in the long run. A
sensible ...

John Nichols
Michigan legislators did not write the so-called “right to work”
legislation that they have enacted in a mad rush of anti-democratic
excess.(Image: DonkeyHotey | Flickr | Creative Commons)
They simply did as they we ...

Jeremiah Goulka
Mitt Romney had hardly conceded before Republicans started fighting over
where to head next. Some Republicans -- and many Democrats -- now
claim that the writing is on the wall: demography is destiny, which
means the G ...

David Macaray
When you examine the history of organized labor—the birth, growth,
trajectory—you have to be shocked and mortified by what just happened to
the great state of Michigan. They went from being one of the strongest,
mo ...

Water Wars

#
thefuture The year 2030 is only 17 short years away. (Wow. I can
remember when it was 25 years away.) What will the world be like in
2030? According to a new " Global Trends " report from the US National
Intelligence office—a deeply researched report provocative in its
predictions wh ...

The
water wars are raging again in America's heartland. Drought-stricken
states are competing for the increasingly scarce water of the Missouri
River and have taken their case to the White House. Officials from
more than 30 states have written President Barack Obama urging him to
interv ...

JEFFERSON
CITY, Mo. - The water wars are raging again in America's heartland,
where drought-stricken states are pleading for the increasingly scarce
water of the Missouri River - to drink from their faucets, irrigate
their crops and float the barges that carry billions of dollars of
agricult ...

The
water wars are raging again in America's heartland, where
drought-stricken states are pleading for the increasingly scarce water
of the Missouri River — to drink from their faucets, irrigate their ...

The Wonk Room

We’ve
had spring weather in early December — and that guarantees 2012 will be
the hottest year on record for the United States. I had reported on
Monday that 2012 was virtually certain to be the hottest on record
thanks to the warm November and blistering early December. Now Climate
...

by
Tony Iallonardo, via National Wildlife Federation One of the sadder
rituals in the nation’s capital is the “December surprise,” whereby the
administration in power makes controversial pronouncements right around a
major holiday. I’d be willing to bet all the candy canes in my stocking
that th ...

A
lot of ink and airtime have been spent on the ongoing negotiations over
the so-called “fiscal cliff,” the tax increases and spending cuts
scheduled to take place at the end of the year. However, according to a
Media Matters report, media outlets have been much more focused on the p
...

MSNBC’s
Andrea Mitchell said this afternoon that Susan Rice’s withdrawal as a
candidate for Secretary of State will not “help Republicans at all”
because members of the party “forced out” a woman of color “before she
was nominated.” For months now, Republicans, in an effort spearheaded by
...

It
has come to light that House Administration Committee Chairman Dan
Lungren (R-CA) secretly approved a $500,000 increase to a contract with a
private law firm to defend the unconstitutional Defense of Marriage Act
(DOMA) in federal court. While the increase was approved in September,
neither t ...

thwap's schoolyard

Big
deal. The election fraud party passed a hypocritical bill forcing
unions to disclose everything about their spending, supposedly because
union dues are tax exempt.
It's harassment, pure and simple. It's also the work of a lawless bunch
of thugs and thieves.
To hell with 'em.
The labour mo ...

(The picture is just to give the ladies ... or dudes who're into that sort of thing ... some morning eye-candy.)
So, let's remember how stephen harper thinks a representative parliamentary democracy/constitutional monarchy should function:
1. Elections should be decided by out-right lying to t ...

Kirby
Cairo describes the impossibility of honest disagreement with dishonest
political hacks:
The problem is, however, that not all disagreements are rooted in honest
differences of opinion. This is where the rightwing ideology of a man
like Harper comes in. If Harper honestly believed that h ...

Okay,
help me out here people. What's going on? It looks like the KPMG audit
is forcing the harpercon regime to "rethink" its commitment to the F-35
fighter. Seems, just like everybody said, that this was really a $40
billion (plus) expenditure and not the $15 billion it was first touted
as.
So ...

Commenter "The Salamander" has passed along some links about a story
wherein the harpercons are deliberately suppressing scientists studying
diseases in salmon farms. This is all out of my balliwick, but as I
understand it, the story is as follows:
1. Canada is legally obligated to info ...

Digital Journal

It
seems unlikely the NHLs Gary Bettman or the NHLPAs Donald Fehr are in a
mood to listen to an outsider when it comes to ending their CBA
dispute. But if they were they might consider heeding the words of no
less a figure than the U.S. president.

Researchers
know that diabetes can coexist with cancer; requiring both diabetes
management and cancer treatments. But a large Canada study found that
20% of women with postmenopausal breast cancer would be at high risk for
Type 2 diabetes.

The
series finale of Flashpoint, airing tonight on Canada's CTV, marks a
poignant end for the most compelling police drama series I've ever
watched. You couldn't help but sympathize with the characters. [No
spoilers in the review, don't worry, fans].

A
multidrug resistant bacteria has been found in a hospital in Toronto.
This may appear nothing unusual. However, the bacterium is very rare to
North America and scientists have traced its origins to India.

A
new report from Statistics Canada has found that consumer debt levels
have hit an all-time high in the third quarter of 2012. The
debt-to-disposable-income ratio stood at 164.4 percent, up from 163.3
percent in the previous quarter.

End Homelessness | Change.org

Fulfilling
the wishes and happiness of children is at the heart of the holiday
season. So, now seems particularly timely for Mississippi to launch a
new plan to end child homelessness (pdf) in the state. What better way
to set the season of giving in motion than by committing to finding safe
an ...

This
Thanksgiving, most of us around the country shared a bountiful harvest
feast with friends and family. We celebrated all that we are thankful
for by gorging ourselves right into a food coma. It's the American way.
Unfortunately, it's also the American way to be thankful for all that we
have ...

What
are they thinking? People obviously don't see the homeless as human or
they wouldn't attempt to hire them to do most of the insane, demeaning
and illegal jobs out there. Here's a small sampling:
Rob dead bodies. The Aokigahara forest at the base of Mt. Fuji in Japan
is the site of 50 to 100 ...

Instead
of pretending homelessness doesn't exist, creating new laws to make it
illegal to sit or sleep in public, or sending homeless residents on a
one-way trip out of town, Los Angeles County may attempt to actually do
something about ending homelessness. And the county is setting the bar
high ...

Despite
its economic troubles, Detroit is not known for being kind to the
homeless. That's too bad, since there are nearly 10,000 homeless people
living there.
In October, police say that Steven James Diponio, 54, became so enraged
at Charles Duncan, 42, who was homeless and sleeping behind a sc ...

Ceasefire.ca

International
Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War has released a video
detailing the humanitarian, medical, and environmental consequences of
nuclear war and explaining why nuclear weapons must be eliminated.

Kevin Trudeau Show

Here
are a few of my personal recommendations for avoiding the flu this
holiday season. These recommendations are also the best way to slow, or
potentially reverse, the aging process, making you look and feel younger
than you have in years. In general terms the way to eradicate any and
all illne ...

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out why the mainstream media news anchors are nothing more than actors
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Armies of Liberation

On
Monday Yemen’s interim president Mansour Abdo Hadi named several judges
to the Supreme Commission on Elections and Referendum (SCER). The SCER
is responsible for the technical aspects of elections and has a pivotal
role in maintaining or subverting the integrity of electi ...

High
risk US embassy in Yemen gets Marine reinforcements as protests
continue by Jane Novak An elite Marine rapid response team arrived in
Yemen’s capital to protect the US embassy there which remains vulnerable
and in disrepair following a mob attack this week. Protests against a
video clip dee ...

Without
much fanfare or explanation, the US State Department revised its
defense export policy on Yemen and will now consider applications for
licenses to export lethal defense articles to Yemen. The July 3, 2012
Federal Register notice updates the US International Traffic in Arms
Regulations (I ...

Several
children were among 25 people killed by land mines planted as al Qaeda
fled Yemen’s southern province of Abyan, the Yemen Executive Mine Action
Center (YEMAC) said on Sunday. Reporting to Abyan’s governor, the YEMAC
said it had cleared or exploded over 2100 shells and mines since June
13 ...

Al
Qaeda in Yemen threatened to execute 73 captured Yemeni soldiers unless
the terror group’s imprisoned comrades are released. “Executing
prisoners is a serious violation of the laws of war and a war crime,”
Human Rights Watch said in a statement today. “It is also a war crime to
use detainees ...

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View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comPrisonplanet.com
Dec 14, 2012 A free whooping cough vaccine will be available to all
pregnant women from 1 January 2013 to help protect their new-born babies
from this serious disease.Check out all the best #altnews at D ...

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View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRT Dec 14, 2012
Russia has not changed its position on the crisis in Syria and the
latest comments by the US State Department are a misinterpretation of
the facts, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Aleksandr Lukashev ...

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Politricks Feed
View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comMichael Snyder
Economic Collapse Dec 14, 2012 Historically, small businesses have been
the primary engine of new job creation in the United States. If the
economy was getting healthy, we would expect to see the number of ...

Dandelion Salad

with
Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad December 12, 2012 [Talk
given on Sept. 26, 2012] unitedforchangetv·Nov 21, 2012 In this lecture,
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges will examine how America
has devolved, economically and politically, into a Third World country
and th ...

Dandelion
Salad with Noam Chomsky by Jovana Vukotic Voice of Russia Dec. 11, 2012
Magnitsky Act implementation and uneasiness in US-Russia relations,
NATO approving the deployment of Patriot missile interceptors to defend
Turkish border with Syria, modus vivendi in which there could be a
reducti ...

by
William Blum Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.killinghope.org
December 11, 2012 “Nuclear, ecological, chemical, economic — our arsenal
of Death by Stupidity is impressive for a species as smart as Homo
sapiens” 1 The hurricanes, the typhoons, the heat waves … the droughts
...

by
Rocket Kirchner Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Rocket Kirchner (blog)
Rocket Kirchner (youtube channel) December 11, 2012 Before we heard
about climate change, global warming, and the Green Party, the Boy
Scouts of America were not only holding the fort down in their
activities in being resp ...

Your New Reality

Only
A Few Weeks Ago, Rupert Murdoch Was Still King Of The World
A glimpse at life before the hacking scandal, from the UK Independent :
It was only a few weeks ago that Rupert, his son James, daughter
Elisabeth and Rebekah Brooks were the talk of the town; hailed as the
king-makers to the pol ...

This
man's brain comprehends in a fraction of a second what is about to
happen, and orders his body into what looks like a superhuman sprint to
get out of the way. The flight mechanism kicks in so fast the conscious
mind, distracted by thoughts of work, home, leisure and love, plays no
role in t ...

Tupac Rises
Well, fuck me....
From even a few dozen rows back, reportedly, the hologram of Tupac was utterly believable.
How long before a Michael Jackson hologram culled from his greatest live performances is touring the world's stadiums?
I've been waiting decades to see holographic tech ...

Stars
are sometimes born in the midst of chaos. About 3 million years ago in
the nearby galaxy M33, a large cloud of gas spawned dense internal knots
which gravitationally collapsed to form stars. NGC 604 was so large,
however, ...

After
decades of promising starts and dead ends, there's still no male
equivalent of the female birth control pill. In the past few years,
though, biologists have opened up some new genetic and molecular leads.
How close are we to ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

International
NGOs are working extensively in the Palestinian villages, towns and
cities of Areas A and B, whilst Palestinians in Area C (including most
of the Jordan Valley) are systematically...
The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation
of Palestinian lands, ...

Haneen
Zoabi: “Legally, they have no case. I never imagined myself to be in
the middle of a war like this. I don’t think they will disqualify me. If
so, and if Balad is disqualified, there will be no...
The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation
of Palestinian ...

Since
late October, major defence drills, including manoeuvres involving
heavy tanks as well as air and missile training, have been taking place
throughout the Jordan Valley as part of the joint...
The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation
of Palestinian lands ...

The
National Library in Jerusalem houses more than 8,000 volumes in Arabic
which once belonged to Palestinians who fled the country or were forced
out in 1948. Were these books collected for the...
The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation
of Palestinian lands ...

I
would even dare to suggest that in Israel of the early 21st century,
the fascist atmosphere with all its trappings ... reflects the public
mood more than in the classic fascist regimes of the 20th...
The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation
of Palestinian l ...

Ria Novosti - Military

China
has unveiled for the first time its Yi Long unmanned aerial vehicle
(UAV) local media reported on Wednesday, which its makers claim is far
cheaper than its Israeli and American analogs at less than $1 million.

The
USC Annenberg Innovation Lab releases three new reports that aim to
serve as teaching and learning guides for K-12 teachers and
administrators who want to develop more participatory learning
approaches in classrooms.

A
new genetic analysis has revealed that many Amazon tree species are
likely to survive human-caused climate warming in the coming century,
contrary to previous findings that temperature increases would cause
them to die out.

People
who reside in rural areas of Utah are less likely to follow colorectal
cancer (CRC) screening recommendations than their urban counterparts,
according to researchers from Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) at the
University of Utah.

Natural Health News

Bird
Flu, or H5N1, doesn't spread easily among humans, but its capability of
mutating has scientists worrying whether it could mutate enough to
cause a human pandemic. The controversy is especially heated since it
was announced that a group of researchers had figured out how to
manipulate the vi ...

Climategate

Dean
of science…suggesting rising seas this next century of up to 100
metres, or Al Gore six metres. When I see things like that I know these
are false. You mentioned the IPCC report; that suggests, at worst on
best scenarios, 59 centimetres. http://www.google.com

What
are the lessons of Climategate? More honesty and transparency in
science? Not according to attorney Alan Nelson in the Guardian UK
today. To him, the lesson is how not to get caught next time.
So how do universities and academics ensure that their correspondence
does not become the “ ...

by
Jessica Dorsey
by Jessica Dorsey Syrian troops have been accused of using Scud missiles
in populated areas, according to a US official and Human Rights Watch.
The United Kingdom has announced its intent to legalize same-sex
marriage in the coming year. Trial Chamber II of the ICTY convicted ...

by
Kevin Jon Heller
by Kevin Jon Heller I had an interesting — and respectful — disagreement
with André de Hoogh last week concerning the right of non-states
parties to retroactively accept the jurisdiction of the Court pursuant
to Article 12(3) of the Rome Statute. I argued in my ...

by
Deborah Pearlstein
by Deborah Pearlstein As loathe as I am to call any attention to Eric
Posner’s latest over on Slate, his piece engaging the Jeh Johnson speech
(about the notion that the Al Qaeda that attacked us on 9/11 might
someday be defeated) is such a blast from the past it’s hard t ...

by
Kenneth Anderson
by Kenneth Anderson A quick roundup of congratulations to folks in the
broad OJ community … To OJ’s good friend Joseph Weiler – whose
distinguished record I won’t even try to summarize – named as the new
president of the European Union Institut ...

Public News Service

Wind
Plus Solar Equals Power and Learning for Native American Schools
PHOENIX – Three new wind turbines spin outside Leupp Schools on the
Navajo Nation.
On the roof, more than 10 kilowatts of solar panels have been installed.
The additions help power the school while stimulating classroo ...

Attorney:
Uranium and Explosives on “Most Dangerous Toys” List PHOENIX, Ariz. - A
blowtorch, asbestos and uranium. Children's toys with those features or
ingredients are on a new list of the "10 Most Dangerous Toys of All
Time" from the American Association for Justice (AAJ). ...(Rea ...

New
Study Questions Wisdom of "Right-to-Work" Laws PHOENIX – Supporters of
“right-to-work” laws in Arizona and the ones just passed in Michigan say
that by limiting the power of unions, they will attract businesses to
their states. But a new study from the Economic Policy Insti ...

Be
Careful How You Give to Disaster Relief PHOENIX - Wildfires charred the
West and Superstorm Sandy clobbered the East this year. Consumer
advocates encourage holiday disaster relief donations, but they also
caution that some homework is in order. The Federal Trade Commission
ranks Arizona sixt ...

Pollution
of local waterways, public health at stake from farm lobby actions A
coalition of local and national public interest organizations have asked
a federal court for permission to participate in a legal action that
will decide when Clean Water Act restrictions apply to the release of
pollu ...

Farmers
are at the front lines in the battle against genetically engineered
(GE) crops. They are the ones that risk economic harm should their crops
be contaminated by GE material. For more than a decade, Center for
Food Safety (CFS) has been representing farmers in court against
chemical compa ...

Remedies
Include Three-Year Monitoring Period to Track, Destroy Any Germinating
GE Plants In a decision this week, a federal court formally halted the
planting of genetically engineered (GE) crops on all National Wildlife
Refuges in the Southeastern United States. The court also ordered steps
t ...

Yesterday,
California voters narrowly turned down Proposition 37, which, if
passed, would have required the labeling of genetically engineered (GE)
foods in the state. While late polls showed the initiative losing in the
double digits, Prop 37 failed by a 6-point margin. A full 47 percent of
Cal ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

Choosing
a carpet for your home is no easy task. Regardless of whether you’re
looking for a textured and more luxurious carpet or cut pile, Berber,
frieze or patterned carpet, today’s have a vast selection of all the
styles and color choices you could need.
Some companies will allow you t ...

Posting
your home into some credible Real Estate Listings are the best way you
can do if you want to sell your property right away. It is not expensive
either to do real estate listing. Most of home sellers nowadays have
got their property listed for a very minimal amount, and most of these
sell ...

House Hopping
Adolescent years are a challenge. For everyone involved. Young
individuals searching, yearning for their independence though not yet
prepared to manage the cost/benefit scales of life. Crazed parents hurt
by their child's sudden rebuttals and scared by both their loss of
control ...

Buying Property
In buying property, you need to know on the things on what you want to
do in on your property. It also means that anything you want to wish to
have in your property. It can be like a beautiful view in which you can
view the sea or the city or an urbanized area. Well, people do ...

Pensieve

In
2009, the Honduran congress and supreme court perpetrated a messy coup
against president Manuel Zelaya. Yesterday President Lobo and the
Honduran congress have perpetrated an “institutional” coup against the
supreme court, sacking 4 out of its 5 members. This was in retaliation
fo ...

We
inhabit a place in space, time and probability where none of the
coordinates that we use to measure them have raced into infinity so far.
But instead of a flat, sterile, constant and unchanging space, we live
in a complex, dynamic, and unpredictable reality. In short, we inhabit
chaos. Just l ...

Maybe
Apple should have waited to announce iOS6 at the same time with the
iPhone 5 launch, or announced the iPhone 5 sooner. Opinions about the
new iPhone vary from “evolutionary” to “boring”. iOS6 on the other hand,
is definitely more atractive. If Apple had chosen to co ...

I’ve
been somber for two days in a row, which isn’t very common in me
anymore. It feels as if someone turned off the light. I suspect that in
the chemicals of my brain, this is not too far from the truth. Lately I
haven’t had to make an effort to feel well. I could [...]
Relate ...

Green Times

Last
week, members of animal welfare groups protested against kangaroo cull!
''A recent survey of 600 Canberrans by Territory and Municipal Services
found 79 per cent were supportive of kangaroo culling under some
circumstances and 70 per cent were supportive of culling for
conservation of smal ...

Environmental
News You Shouldn't Miss
Storms hit ahead of sunny long weekend
The last day of autumn may have stolen winter’s thunder with a wet storm
hitting the city yesterday afternoon. Dark skies covered the
metropolitan area and much of the South West from mid-afternoon, with
rain an ...

Today
is Green Capital Day in Australia. Do you know something about that?
Well, Green capital was established in 2002 by The Total Environment
Center (http://www.google.com/url?sa=t rct=j
q=the%20total%20environment%20center source=web cd=1 ved=0CF4QFjAA
url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tec.org.au%2F ei=G ...

Environmental
News You Shouldn't Miss
Premier's park hunting backdown the price of power sale
National parks in NSW will be opened up to recreational hunters as part
of a deal between the Shooters and Fishers Party and the government to
ensure passage of its electricity privatisation bill ...

Last
week, The Age website
(http://www.theage.com.au/environment/conservation/giraffes-die-of-shock-after-zoo-rampage-20120515-1ynlq.html)
published an article about 2 Giraffes' death from stress after a zoo
rampage in Poland.
Here you have an extract from this moving article: « Giraffes are ex ...

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

As
events in Egypt, Syria and Palestine heat up…
…The nation-state in the middle of all this, Israel, has had its own
share of high political drama. True, instead of blood, only tears and
virtual ink were shed there. But as usual in Israel-Palestine, it makes
for a good story.
Earlie ...

There
is a ceasefire in Gaza. It remains to be seen if and when the promise
to open Gaza to normal civilian movement, laconically stated in the
ceasefire agreement, will be fulfilled. On Friday, less than 48 hours
after its enactment, the first bad sign appeared. In at least two
locations near t ...

Part
of expatriate life is worrying for the health of elderly overseas
parents. My father-in-law’s health is bad enough to worry about, even
without this recent crap. My wife’s parents live in Moshav Shahar,
Israel, some 15km from the Gaza Strip as the missile flies. Their home
has n ...

We
have just ended four weeks during which Israeli business and politics
were almost completely shut down due to a spate of Jewish holidays.
There’s a known refrain in Hebrew: “After the Holidays”, meaning “Don’t
worry, we’ll get back to you sometime in Octobe ...

…but
they were completely upstaged by his Wile E. Coyote climax.
These parts are highly worth revisiting. Bibi’s brazen, out-and-out
racism and lunatic brand of nationalist-supremacy, were expressed in no
uncertain terms upon the United Nations stage. The man’s true colors wer
...

Politics in the Zeros

pics on SodaheadWriters at The Nation magazine are calling for
progressives to occupy the Democratic Party and take back control of it
from the evil-bellied ones who control it now. Honestly, I don’t know
whether to laugh or cry at the futility of their attempt.How they plan
to do this is ...

This
Swiss Army Cybertool has just about everything you might need in a
compact package, including removable screw and nut adapters and a long
handle for getting at computer parts, along with Philips and traditional
screwdrivers. The adapters snap into place on the long handle, which
locks firml ...

Who
would have thought that the highlight of the Hurricane Sandy benefit
would be an absolutely badass performance by Sir Paul McCartney, Dave
Grohl, Krist Novoselic and Pat Smear? The song is “Cut Me Some Slack”
and was written collectively by Sirvana during a jam session

Even
Russia is no longer pretending that Assad will remain in power. What
comes next after Assad falls will not be pretty. There will be warring
factions. Numerous outside countries including ours will have proxy
fighters there. Syria has no economy now. It will take years for them to
recover. I ...

Donkey
Mountain has a fine rant on the deplorable state of our mainstream
media. I would add that Fox News and MSNBC are simply mirror images of
each other, only concerned with doing investigative journalism when it
involves attacking the Other Side and never their own side. This of
course means ...

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